A question for parents.

[bostonlsu81]

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From: bostonlsu81
Subject: Re: A question for parents.
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6109] A question for parents.
Date: 8/8/00 12:27 am  (ET)

> As much as I enjoyed Book 4, I notice the tone is becoming
> increasingly dark. I wonder how the children who've completed this
> book have reacted to it.

I had some of the same concerns when I started reading GoF to my nine
year-old son. I warned him that there were some scary parts, but he
informed me in no uncertain terms that he wanted me to read it with him
anyway (we ended up reading alternate pages for the most part). Anyway,
after we finished the book, he told me that he thought only one part was
scary -- the arrival in the graveyard and the event that immediately
followed. I probably reacted more strongly than him to the last few
chapters, since there were a number of places where the depth of the
loss went totally over his head.

You'll have to judge for yourself how well your daughter can handle
certain parts of the book. However, my son definitely handled things
much better than I anticipated. The next test will be to see what happens
when he reads it by himself in bed at night. That will have to wait for
a while, since he proudly loaned the whole series to his uncle for a
short while. I think there will be another adult convert soon!