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Originally Posted by JSWolf
As I said, parents need to take a more active role in what their kids read. It's not words that are an issue, but themes. A lot of books have themes that are not suitable for kids.
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My experience - yes, as a real parent, and an aunt, and so forth - has been that children are simply uninterested in books with themes that are truly unsuitable for them. Once those children start to transition into being teenagers (as mine is right now), they can obtain whatever books they like independently from the library, and IMO at that age it's pointless and potentially counterproductive to try to stop them, even if their parents are so motivated.
As a parent of a literate young adult, my role in his reading is to give him plenty of books for Christmas and birthdays, to model reading for pleasure and information, and to make sure he has a library card.