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I agree completely.
The percentage of writing about intimacy is very low and not explicit. This is a historical novel about Paris prior to America entering WWII . . . it's far more important for your 13-year old to know what happened in the world than to be worried about a couple truly in love. Isn't it time your teenager is knowledgeable about sexuality and able to select his/her own reading material? Bet he/she could teach you a lot. They know it already and have read far more than you think.
I agree too, Debrah. Helicopter parenting doesn’t do kids any favours.
My parents didn’t stop me from reading Mario Puzo’s The Godfather when I was twelve. What a book!
13 years olds vary greatly in sensitivity and maturity. I think this question reveals a parent's insight into what is appropriate for their particular child given what the parent knows about what that child can handle and what they can't. It isn't helicopter parenting. Just parenting IMO. And while this certainly isn't a erotic novel, the very few sex screens in the book are graphic/explicit. "He touched my breast" and "he plunged inside of me" is sex detailed clearly (explicit) and very different from simply saying they made love, or had sex, or were intimate, etc.
I totally agree with you! These types of questions always set my teeth on edge. Book lovers of any age know what they want to read without it being censored. My now adult daughter read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Lolita " in middle school... along with Laura Ingalls Wilder, Harry Potter and... yuck... Twilight. Personally, I think the Twilights are a waste of reading time but it was her time... and her choice. Not mine.
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The percentage of writing about intimacy is very low and not explicit. This is a historical novel about Paris prior to America entering WWII . . . it's far more important for your 13-year old to know what happened in the world than to be worried about a couple truly in love. Isn't it time your teenager is knowledgeable about sexuality and able to select his/her own reading material? Bet he/she could teach you a lot. They know it already and have read far more than you think.
I agree too, Debrah. Helicopter parenting doesn’t do kids any favours.My parents didn’t stop me from reading Mario Puzo’s The Godfather when I was twelve. What a book!
13 years olds vary greatly in sensitivity and maturity. I think this question reveals a parent's insight into what is appropriate for their particular child given what the parent knows about what that child can handle and what they can't. It isn't helicopter parenting. Just parenting IMO. And while this certainly isn't a erotic novel, the very few sex screens in the book are graphic/explicit. "He touched my breast" and "he plunged inside of me" is sex detailed clearly (explicit) and very different from simply saying they made love, or had sex, or were intimate, etc.
I totally agree with you! These types of questions always set my teeth on edge. Book lovers of any age know what they want to read without it being censored. My now adult daughter read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Lolita " in middle school... along with Laura Ingalls Wilder, Harry Potter and... yuck... Twilight. Personally, I think the Twilights are a waste of reading time but it was her time... and her choice. Not mine.
