Skylar's review
17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore
by Jenny Offill, Nancy Carpenter
I'll put this on my "never let a kid I know read this list!!!" Makes me think of the Captain Underpants books that my son liked to read when he was younger. The title says it all.
Skylar's review
17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore by Jenny Offill, Nancy Carpenter
Skylar's review
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This is a funny story for the PARENT of an impish child, but I found it in the children's section of the library. I would never read this to my child again. It sends a very poor message. It gives her ideas of impish things to do she's never considered doing before -- and she's come up with plenty ideas of her own. But worst of all, it ends with the message that all you have to do is lie and say you're sorry when you're not, and then you can get away with it to do impish things yet again. Certainly as parents we see our kids learning to say they're sorry on reflex, when they don't mean it, because they know it's what they're supposed to do before getting to move on, so it's a sort of satire a PARENT can enjoy, but there's no way a kid is going to get a decent message from it or understand the satire. Instead, I can only see it reinforcing bad behavior.
I'll put this on my "never let a kid I know read this list!!!" Makes me think of the Captain Underpants books that my son liked to read when he was younger. The title says it all.