Jun 15, 2017
But on an entirely different note, same 13 yo is writing her first fanfic. Hermoine/Draco. O. M. G.
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But on an entirely different note, same 13 yo is writing her first fanfic. Hermoine/Draco. O. M. G.
My eldest daughter is 12.
Today she discovered fanfiction.net.
She said to me - “mom - some of this is better than the original book.” (She is reading the Marissa Meyer books - cyberpunk retellings of fairytales. The original book - Cinder - was a NaNo book.)
She is not ready for porn. At some point, she is going to come to me with her eyeballs bleeding and I will know why.
@sathinfection - this made me think of you. Ha.
The art is really good. There are hardly any words.
M, almost 10, commenting on Mouseguard
dear lord, please help me be a better parent than Han and Leia.
Parenting success
I often feel like I fail more than succeed but today we had a Christmas at hogwarts party for the kids and I think it went really well. We made snitch ornaments and broomstick ornaments and pumpkin pastries and honey duke Bon bons. Then we had a "sponsor a house elf" silly sock swap.
I remember when the Harry Potter books were first coming out. A number of friends of mine who were getting degrees in YA lit, commented that they were not very well written, as books and were vaguely bemoaning the fact that there were so many BETTER books out there. At the time they came out, I read the books, enjoyed them - I don’t know much about literary criticism, so I had nothing educated to add to the conversation.
Now I have kids old enough to read them. We have been pretty restrictive about our kids and Harry Potter - we did not want them to read them before their reading level was up to snuff, we wanted them to read them and enjoy them, not get lost on words like Hufflepuff and lumos. The nine year olds have been allowed to read books 1 and 2, The eleven year old is up to book 5. The eleven year old has been allowed to see the first movie, not any of others. (We are also concerned about some of the themes in the later books.)
This week, the three of them spent endless hours talking about, quoting, making jokes, drawing picture, asking questions and making up stories about the books. There has never been another book or series of books that has so engaged their imagination, that has so caught their fancy. It is amazing!
My daughter (k, age11) is home sick from school today. Guess what she did? She wrote Percy Jackson fanfic. All by herself. At lunch we had a conversation about if she could set it at camp half blood or if people would think she is copying. So I explained to her that the entire Percy Jackson books are copies and it's her story and she can do whatever she wanted.
I am watching Supernatural (currently on Season 3) and "Wayward Son" will never be the same. (Dean's music rocks.) But, as much as I love the show, some of the episodes make me cringe when the monsters (or victims) are children. I just want to shake the parent of that pint sized actor and say...REALLY? You thought it was a good idea to let them dress your eight year old up in a blood soaked dress and casually talk about murdering their entire family? This was a good choice for your family????
WTF, man.