HELP! Any fellow parents of young Potter fans out there....

[spinelli372003]

Hi,  You will probably get a lot of answers on this post.  My own 
personal opinion is to hold off on the 5th book till your child is 
able to read it on her own.There are always those who say let a kid 
have acess to anything they want as far as reading goes but I am not 
one of them lol.  I think if they are able to readit themselves that 
is one thing but to read it to them I would say no.  My 9yr old is 
currently listening to the 5th book on tape and what I have found is 
that he goes back and forth in the cd's and listens to the parts he 
likes and skips whole sections that are over his head.  some kids are 
way advanced in their reading skills but his are at the average 3rd 
grade level he can read the first couple just fine but when it gets 
to the 3rd and forward they get really wordy and he just gets bogged 
down and loses interest.  
sherry

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> > HI everyone, I have a bit of a dilemma.  My six-year-old daughter 
> > has gone and become a Harry Potter fanatic, which naturally 
> thrilled 
> > me at first.  I've really enjoyed reading the books out loud to 
> > her.  My problem is that we've just reached the last part of GOF 
> and 
> > Cedric is going to die (tomorrow night, yikes!) and OOTP lurks in 
> > the near future.  Has anyone else out there read Books 4 or 5 to 
> > their young children?  I'm tempted to put off OOTP indefinitely, 
if 
> > I can get away with it.  I've done a little judicious editing of 
> > language now and then, but not cut much out, and now I don't know 
> > what to do with the heavy stuff that's coming.
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas, recommendations, anecdotes that might 
> help...?
> > 
> > Thanks much!
> > 
> > Andromeda
> 
> I started this by typing lots of personal anecdotes, but the truth 
> is, every kid is so different. I think you just need to go with 
your 
> instincts. If your children are sensitive, gloss over the yucky 
parts.
> I read GOF to my son when he was 7 and he did fine with it. We read 
> OOTP last summer (he was 8), and frankly, I think he was bored with 
a 
> lot of it; he spent the first 3rd of the book asking "But when's 
> Harry going to get to Hogwarts". I've discouraged him from reading 
it 
> to himself, even though he has read the other four, just because it 
> seems so much more adult than the others (though I started to feel 
> that way with book 3).  I would try to put off reading OOTP to 
> children as young as yours, because of the boredom factor if 
nothing 
> else.
> Good luck
> Sandy