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You may be on to something here... How do you encourage people not to read drivel? A complicated question.
I agree it's complicated. Geez, if I didn't try like hell, from the womb on, to assist my 3 boys in a love of reading, I don't know what I've done worthwhile in my life. Oh, well. Still, they do agree on most drivel, and can have a decent conversation about an assigned book (which I will also read just to stay connected to them including TKAM for the 4th time a few years ago). Darn, times change.
At what point do we intro the kiddies to Brian Lumley and what are arguably the best vampire books ever written?
I find it "irritating" that people are wanting Youth to read books with more violence and hatred as the subject matter. Is not our Youth full of that from the World of Television and News!
I don't own a television, but nobody is saying "stuff your child's head full of violence and hatred" - it's about finding pieces of literature (and film) that actually speak to some larger issue(s). Sometimes those books will be filled with violence and hatred - that is a reality of humanity, and not one that adolescents need to be entirely shielded from.
When people lack the desire for wisdom, we fall to a desire of emotions. And we know how stable that is.
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You may be on to something here... How do you encourage people not to read drivel? A complicated question.
I agree it's complicated. Geez, if I didn't try like hell, from the womb on, to assist my 3 boys in a love of reading, I don't know what I've done worthwhile in my life. Oh, well. Still, they do agree on most drivel, and can have a decent conversation about an assigned book (which I will also read just to stay connected to them including TKAM for the 4th time a few years ago). Darn, times change.
At what point do we intro the kiddies to Brian Lumley and what are arguably the best vampire books ever written?
I find it "irritating" that people are wanting Youth to read books with more violence and hatred as the subject matter. Is not our Youth full of that from the World of Television and News!
I don't own a television, but nobody is saying "stuff your child's head full of violence and hatred" - it's about finding pieces of literature (and film) that actually speak to some larger issue(s). Sometimes those books will be filled with violence and hatred - that is a reality of humanity, and not one that adolescents need to be entirely shielded from.
When people lack the desire for wisdom, we fall to a desire of emotions. And we know how stable that is.
