Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for April 21, 2020

WOW! Half way done and she just started reading it yesterday. I bet she could knock off “War and Peace” by Sunday.

So who’s going to talk to Katy?? No one’s taking the lead!!

Have Clayton do it.

I was off work last week, not by choice

Had a fever one day, but in these “uncertain times” that is enough to earn me a week off from my job at a grocery store

For the first 3 days I treated it as if I was actually sick and spent them either reading or sleeping

The unread book queue on top of my bookshelves shrank by a couple of books

(Never have read “The Godfather”, haven’t seen the movie either )

She did say she was reading a really good book. But I’m surprised she didn’t stop when she got to the fate of the pony (well, horse).

She should read The Princess Bride or Lord of the RIngs. They are more equine-friendly.

What are your kids reading?

I read “Gone With the Wind” in 3 hours, one very hot and sunny summer day, when I was 13 years old. The neighbor that lent it to me swore I was lying thru my teeth…until I gave her a very accurate synopsis of it. That’s when I figured out I remember what I read, if I’m interested in it! And, no, being 13, I had not seen the movie.

Here’s a suggestion: Go to Katy, take the book from her and tell her, in a firm but gentle manner, “No!” It might could work …

They will need to work on an antidote movie night. My mind goes to Apocalypse Now, but I’m thinking that might be …bad?

Fortunately the first half of the book is mostly violence; the latter half is mostly sex

Stuff,yeah.She knows stuff.

“She says she’s only reading the ‘good parts’…”

“Uh-Oh…”

My daughter was about Katy’s age when I found her reading Clan of the Cave Bear, containing a surfeit of lengthy, graphic, sex scenes. (https://pictorial.jezebel.com/what-a-bonkers-book-about-horny-cave-people-taught-me-a-1796726149) As a geologist, I was reluctant to ban the book; so I simply cut out all the offending pages.

I always let me kids read whatever they wanted to read. If they came across something meant for older readers, I figured one of three things would happen. They already knew about it. They didn’t know or care and it went right over their heads. Or they were curious enough to ask about it.

a LITTLE scary? PLEASE PSYCHOPATH MATERIAL YOU MEAN!

After reading that she may asking a lot of those uncomfortable ‘birds and bees’ type questions, that Adam’s gonna have a problem answering.

I was about 11 when I read the godfather but nobody would take me to see the movie and I wanted to see you so Soso bad even though I eventually saw it years later I think I developed a bit of a complex.

Speaking of the Godfather, the place if for sale. https://www.dwell.com/article/beverly-house-gordon-kauffmann-godfather-real-estate-b0dcfc18?utm_medium=email&utm_source=postup&utm_campaign=&list=1

I am now questioning my parenting skills. When Adam said “we can’t let Katy read the Godfather” my first thought was “why not?”

Time to make her an offer she can’t refuse?

Nothing she hasn’t already seen on tv or the internet.

I read through my grandfather’s entire series of “The Second World War — An Illustrated History of WWII” (He got it as a series of magazines, one a month I think.) There was some pretty gory stuff in there; they didn’t pull any punches in describing the conflict. But honestly, the only thing that really rattled me was the issue about the Holocaust. I’m not Jewish, but it made me feel sick in a way that seeing corpses hanging out of burning tanks did not…

This is when parenting comes in. Make sure what she learns is learned correctly and in context.

Never take sides against the family. Ever.