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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Or look at it another way: it may be a good way to expand what you permit the child to read, simply because of a few words.
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if you do feel that your child is not yet read for those sorts of words, then find books that don't contain them. There are plenty of good books out there that don't use those sorts of words that are good. Then when your child is read, left him/her have at those books with the words if that's what they want to read. But don't tell your child, here you go now you can read this because you are mature enough to handle those words. Just give the child the option to read the books because they are good books.
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Trust is to be earned, not given. Children who understand that are probably prepared to read those bad words because they understand that using bad words is a way to lose trust. Hopefully they would also have enough sense to ask about those words to understand why they are bad. Children who do not understand that trust is earned are unlikely to be prepared to read those bad words. It is best if each parent makes that decision based upon their own child, rather than letting an app do it. On the other hand, letting the app do it is making the decision after a fashion.
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Yes, trust is to be earned, but you also don't not trust your kids until they do something to deserve that. My parents never said I could not read something because it was not right for me. I made my own book choices. I have to say, they if anything wasn't appropriate reading, it was some of the books we read for school. That's a problem. It's one parents cannot solve. How do you tell your child's school that what was assigned as schoolwork is inappropriate?