tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post5904406179873102875..comments2023-11-22T06:35:25.251-05:00Comments on POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS: To Scare or Not to ScareJulia Buckleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-48832718325742959782013-01-09T13:31:05.716-05:002013-01-09T13:31:05.716-05:00I find that children tend to self select what they...I find that children tend to self select what they can handle, and if they are frightened, they do give you the opportunity to talk about it. Yes, the world can be a scary place. Bad things do happen, but it is also beautiful, and funny, wondrous, and awe inspiring. I hope we can convey that to our kids.Dmitriyhttp://www.kfr.ch/groups/test/weblog/0f21f/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-87273209586236565782013-01-09T13:29:01.590-05:002013-01-09T13:29:01.590-05:00When we talk about No Faxing these days, it means ...When we talk about No Faxing these days, it means that there is an online procedure involved since this is the age of internet boom in the financial market. Self-employed professionals, home offices and small business houses cannot expect a better telecommunications solution. The system will then send to the number you input, and the recipient's fax machine will spring to life and crank out Dmitriykqjghttp://itouchlab.com/groups/ipadsintheclassroom/wiki/65933/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-32765464707385833102012-10-25T20:05:20.003-04:002012-10-25T20:05:20.003-04:00Watching almost all college students jump into a m...Watching almost all college students jump into a main thoroughfare in our town without once looking up (or turning on the crosswalk lights) makes me think, Sheila, that definitely children aren't getting enough information whether the failure starts as early as childhood stories or not.<br /><br />The movie "The Wizard of Oz" gave me nightmares at 5, one of only two early movies I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-47140880606792840522012-10-25T18:53:56.730-04:002012-10-25T18:53:56.730-04:00I find that children tend to self select what they...I find that children tend to self select what they can handle, and if they are frightened, they do give you the opportunity to talk about it. Yes, the world can be a scary place. Bad things do happen, but it is also beautiful, and funny, wondrous, and awe inspiring. I hope we can convey that to our kids.lil Glucksternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288522126331817172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-37127279326483509372012-10-25T16:03:03.465-04:002012-10-25T16:03:03.465-04:00I'll get to see for myself, Mario. I'm wor...I'll get to see for myself, Mario. I'm working my way through the books (those written by Baum himself) on Kindle, which include <i>The Tin Woodman</i>. BTW, speaking of the magic of childhood reading, as I read the first three books in the text-only Kindle edition, I had vivid recollections of all the illustrations in the editions I read as a child, ie 50 or 60 years ago.Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-39685930223962055262012-10-25T14:58:55.981-04:002012-10-25T14:58:55.981-04:00Ahem. " ... the wonderment and joy are retai...Ahem. " ... the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out." Obviously Baum had forgotten about that statement before he wrote <i>The Tin Woodman of Oz</i>. Because Oz is a fairyland, no one dies. Even if the person in question is chopped into pieces ... Think about that for a moment. (In this book, the Tin Woodman ends up in a conversation with JJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13404985455733545060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-19791797704717840342012-10-25T12:18:43.359-04:002012-10-25T12:18:43.359-04:00Harry Potter is a special case: the first book was...Harry Potter is a special case: the first book wasn't dark at all, it was Harry's first year at Hogwarts, he and his friends were 11. The first cohort of readers grew older a year at a time as the books came out (and the movie viewers also had a year between movies, while the actors aged a year each year). By the third or fourth book, there was a lot of dark--not "scary scenes and Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-63904562287675902702012-10-25T10:05:50.847-04:002012-10-25T10:05:50.847-04:00Don't the Harry Potter books/movies have scary...Don't the Harry Potter books/movies have scary scenes and battles between good and evil? Even very young children love those.Sandra Parshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17403144248962124138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-32857693044652074622012-10-25T09:03:20.459-04:002012-10-25T09:03:20.459-04:00That's the question, Sheila. Here's part o...That's the question, Sheila. Here's part of Baum's original 1900 intro to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:<br />"Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet ...the time has come for a series of newer...tales...[eliminating]...all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-16149167878798898242012-10-25T08:27:41.908-04:002012-10-25T08:27:41.908-04:00Just this past week I read a comment about the end...Just this past week I read a comment about the ending of E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, a beloved children's classic. White made his central character, a spider, a warm and sympathetic character--and [SPOILER ALERT] killed her in the end. That's the reality of nature. Children loved the book, perhaps in part because it wasn't and sugar-coated--I think children have better BS Sheila Connollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165644581595919711noreply@blogger.com