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[OrlanisWorks]

This is fucking stupid.

I think some parents try to prevent their children from seeing reality as long as possible so they live with some delusional view of the world where fantastical things are true. As much as I wouls like such an approach, maybe it simply makes them and their views fall harder as they grow up.

Editing a book out of their age group so it seems more appropriate and dreamy is silly. Your kid isa bit young for this, let 'em discover it on their own. Hope they have questions for you when they do, so you can give honest answers.

I hate that stuff fed to you as a child, that you can simply dream and change the world. And this is a goddamn book, don't treat it like shit and edit it at whim to fit your own agenda. We have enough of that in religious scripture. She says she doesn't want to shield her child, but it seems she doing just that.

Eh. Rant.

 

[TestMonkey]

This is what I picture when I think of parental editing.

Hector's Captain Punch Comic

But yeah the later Harry Potter shouldn't be read to a five year old. Parents have a hard enough time explaining the real world without fiction confusing them.

 

[PaulloDEC]

I think it's probably just better to choose content appropriate to your child's age/emotional maturity rather than butchering the content to make it better suited. My two cents.

 

[DrForester]

She's setting her kid up so she can give him a fake-out Hogwarts letter when he turns 11.

When he turns 11 he'll have a party, and she'll have a fake Hogwarts letter delivered.

She then gets him all his wizard supplies and packs them.

They fly to London and goes to Kings Cross station.

She films the kid crashing his cart into the 9 3/4 barrier and posts it on youtube.

 

[TUROK]

This is fucking stupid.

I think some parents try to prevent their children from seeing reality as long as possible so they live with some delusional view of the world where fantastical things are true. As much as I wouls like such an approach, maybe it simply makes them and their views fall harder as they grow up.

Editing a book out of their age group so it seems more appropriate and dreamy is silly. Your kid isa bit young for this, let 'em discover it on their own. Hope they have questions for you when they do, so you can give honest answers.

I hate that stuff fed to you as a child, that you can simply dream and change the world. And this is a goddamn book, don't treat it like shit and edit it at whim to fit your own agenda. We have enough of that in religious scripture. She says she doesn't want to shield her child, but it seems she doing just that.

Eh. Rant.

Fucking lol, what's her agenda, summarize Harry Potter in a slightly more kid friendly way? Holy shit, she's defacing art! Burn her at the stake!

She even said they'd revisit the series when he gets a bit older so she won't have to kidify it.

I'm thinking most people didn't even read the damn article and just saw "censor Harry Potter," which immediately led to convulsions and mouth-foaming.

 

[sgi02]

Forgive me if it has already been posted. I wonder how she would choose to read the bible to her child?

 

[TUROK]

Forgive me if it has already been posted. I wonder how she would choose to read the bible to her child?

Maybe she wouldn't?

 

[shanshan310]

Forgive me if it has already been posted. I wonder how she would choose to read the bible to her child?

Well, there are "kids editions" of the bible available already.

 

[royalan]

Fucking lol, what's her agenda, summarize Harry Potter in a slightly more kid friendly way? Holy shit, she's defacing art! Burn her at the stake!

She even said they'd revisit the series when he gets a bit older so she won't have to kidify it.

I'm thinking most people didn't even read the damn article and just saw "censor Harry Potter," which immediately led to convulsions and mouth-foaming.

I think most people read the article (for god's sake, it's not even that long), and still disagree with her altering an established story to keep things pinkadelic for her child, as opposed to a) being honest with her child, b) using HP as a tool to have an honest and responsible dialogue with her child, or c) just choosing something else more appropriate to read for her child.

 

[sgi02]

Maybe she wouldn't?

and thats fine, but out of all the books in the world to read to your child... There's plenty of age appropriate material available should a parent find issue with other books more mature subject matter. Why deny them and bastardize the meaning of the original writing?

If people want to shelter their children from such outlandish works, then they shouldn't read them to their children in the first place. I'm very solidified in this opinion, and any parents who disagree can go f*** themselves.

 

[Monocle]

So, overbearing Mom censors a children's book so her delicate pumpkin won't have to face the terrors of reality. Nice job lady.

 

[Twilight Gap]

At least she's censoring it. My parents never let my brother or I anywhere near witchcraft growing up.

Different shades of stupid. I think being read a mutilated book is the worse of the two.

Meh. No worse than a line being changed for TV broadcast or a particular scene being censored.

Unless she's literally adding in pages and changing the story. She should just read the kid fanfiction if that's the case.

 

[Monocle]

At least she's censoring it. My parents never let my brother or I anywhere near witchcraft growing up.

Different shades of stupid. I think being read a mutilated book is the worse of the two.

 

[Incitemaybe]

This is going to backfire on her. She sounds well intentioned but very naive.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

If you read the article, she comes to the conclusion that maybe it's a silly idea and that she just needs to wait to share the next book with her kid.

It's still a little overbearing, but oh well.

 

[radios shipping overview]

Well, at least she realized she started the boy on HP much too early.

There's plenty of media that's microtargeted at each stage of a child's development. There's no need to expose your kid to something they're not prepared for so that you have to change half of it before it reaches their delicate little eyes/ears.

 

[gblues]

I read the first several Harry Potter books to my son at 5 years old. He was fine. We stopped at Goblet of Fire because post-Goblet Harry gets pretty intense. We will probably go back to it in a year or two though.

By the time he is old enough to read it for himself, he will probably forgotten most of the edits. I don't think this is that big of a deal.