I am more interested ( at the moment) in the use of casual use of orphan/orphanage dropped in movies, books etc... How do you handle this?
My son LOVES superheroes right now. Loves! One of the stories I read to him starts off with 'blah blah blah...didn't come from the best beginnings. He and his brother were in an orphanage when they were little....' Do I read this to him or skip over it? I'm torn.
Would he view this as empowering-knowing one of his beloved super hero's was adopted? Superman and even Word Girl came to this planet to be saved from some disaster. Hawkeye and his brother were in an orphanage. Even Spidey is raised by his Aunt and Uncle. Hmmmmm? Thoughts?
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Amy, I have had this internal debate several times, whether it was about pa killing a deer, or Laura wanting to keep the Indian woman’s baby in the Little House books, the language in Huck Finn and I always come down on the side of life is full of difficult discussions and hard truths. I would much prefer my children have lots of practice with critical thinking with their father and I before they wonder off in to the wide, wide world…I always come down on the side of edit nothing…I am a firm believer that as far as literature goes, children process the written word an the level that their imagination and intellect can manage…as for Movies which tend to spoon feed the watcher and enhance that with images that a child may or may not be able to process…well, I am pretty picky, I allow for touchy subject matter…but no violence.
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