TorstenRe: HP & Chamber of Secrets

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I am guessing that Snow white is out too, eh? Folklore is full of

cruel adults locking up or attempting to kill little kids. Maybe

that is why, when I first read your post I didn't get it, then I

thought more about it and realized what you mean. In that sense,

though I never thought about it, I agree it would be so niceavoiding

that kind of stuff... I still remember how angry and mad I was at

the school (catholic, no doubt) for calling an assembly and informing

my 6 yo first grader about the Columbine murders....I would have

never chosen to tell my daughter about those. So, I really do see

your point. On the other hand, sometimes experiencing things in

fantasy gives us coping skills we would not otherwise possess. Since

now my kids have been exposed to the twin towers falling over and

over again (no way to avoid...walking through a mall with tvs on youw

would see it, back then, even though at home we have always had a no

tv kind of policy), have been exposed to recaps of other horrors,

plus they know about the brutal murder of our oldest " child " 's three

year old daughter (the mom was a foster child who later grew up to

have her own children, one was kidnapped and brutally raped and

murdered at age of 3) Anyway Miranda is old enough to remember that

we kept the other two kids during the weeks surrounding the funeral,

and again during the wrenching weeks surrounding the grueling trial.

Then, of course, there are the horrors that two of my kids (adopted

kiddos) have experienced personally, with knife weilding boyfriends

of mom and sexual experiences beyond my personal adult imagination.)

While we would like them to hush, these facts still sometimes get

woven into our lives, and the other children hear it. So, for us

(and for you, I am still so glad that you live in the world I did

when I got mad at the school for telling MIranda about columbine!), I

suppose that Harry Potter is pretty dang mild, and am glad in a way

that the kids can watch and cheer on as the orphan boy rises to the

occasion and defeats the evil adult, while all the while maintaining

respect and admiration for other appropriate, non evil adults.

Yet, with that said, I still yearn for easier days, the days before

the twin towers changed my kids forever. So if you can hang onto the

innocence a little longer, Torsten...I say go for it (even if

did call you old fashioned, lol)

Take care,

Jen

In cfparents@y..., " Baxter " wrote:

> Ah Torsten, I'll call you old fashioned LOL.

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> Re: HP & Chamber of Secrets

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> Hi ,

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> we won't allow Fiona to read the book or watch the movie now or

within

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> next years. Maybe I have to change my mind later on (I am used to

that

> :-)) ), but I don't like the fact that in the story adults try to

kill

> kids.

> Call me old-fashioned, but want Fiona to be a kid as long as

possible.

> Five

> of Silke's friends are elementary school teachers and they all are

of

> the

> same opinion that Harry Potter isn't made for kids below the age of

ten.

> But then, if Sian has read the book already it doesn't matter to

watch

> the

> movie anymore.

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> Peace

> Torsten, dad of Fiona 5wcf

> e-mail: torstenkrafft@w...

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