New Topic: Reading HP books to chilldren

[distaiyi]

No: HPFGUIDX 154151

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Pamela Rosen <pam_rosen at ...> wrote:
>
> Here's something that has been on my mind lately.  I wonder how many
of you are (or have) read HP to children?  
> 

Distaiyi : The bad parent....

Quite frankly I've always held that chilren understand far more than
people give them credit for... I've read the first 4 books to my
daughters, my 8 year old is reading the 5th book with my help and I'm
reading it to my 6 year old daughter. My younger son could care less.

At any rate, exposing them to older themes isn't really an issue.
After all, they are already coming home singing "my lumps, my lumps,
my lovely lady lumps" ... and so on... They don't need my help being
exposed to adult, or teen themes.

So I take the opportunity to read a good morality tale to them and
then TALK about it after we read a chapter. What happened? What do you
think about that? What do you think Dumbledore meant by that? Do you
think Malfoy really should have been transfigured into a Ferret? 

Then we discuss their answers.

Now that we've seen the movies a number of times I'm doing the same
with them as well. The death scene is a particular scene which
recently came in useful.

Distaiyi.