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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
@andyh2000:
Yeah, I think for young children there's a big difference between being read to and reading alone.
When your parents read to you, their presence brings a sense of safety. So I have no bad memory of Grimm's fairy tales (though some of the are very erm... grim), because my parents read them to me.
But venturing out into the world of books on my own (I learned to read at five) could be quite scary sometimes.
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I'm eternally grateful to my parents for having books around the house and encouraging reading - I can't imagine a life without it. A bit of mild childhood trauma over scary stories (I was old enough to know it wasn't real) is worth it to me for a lifetime of pleasure. And by the time I got to about age ten or eleven I remember my mum telling me she wouldn't read some of the books I was reading (my Stephen King, James Herbert etc. phase).
Andrew