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Originally Posted by bmwvan
Rhadin, I think what you are doing is called "responsible parenting" and is not censorship in any form. Good for you! I don't remember buying my own books until I was 15 or so. At what age did any of you begin buying your own books? And, not comic books, OK?
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I'm pretty sure I bought my first chapter books with my own money when I was 10, at a school "book fair." (The two books were
Space Cadet and
Between Planets, both by Heinlein.) There were also opportunities to buy books at reduced prices through a catalog ordering program at school. Shortly after that we moved to a town where I could walk home from school and stop at a book store, and I started buying all my own books without supervision. At one point, my mother asked me about the content of one that she felt had a rather suggestive cover (
Dreamsnake, by Vonda McIntire), I explained that the cover was not descriptive of the contents of the book, compared it in level of "adult" content to a movie we had both recently seen together, promised to put a concealing cover on it if I took it to school, and that was that.
My parents were not being neglectful. They trusted my maturity to select my own reading material and ask them if I had questions.