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Poll: Reading Harry Potter To Your Children, Do you? When did you start?
Poll: Reading Harry Potter to your children
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post Jun 22 2006, 02:58 PM
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Welcome to our Parent Alley Poll, Reading Harry Potter to your kids.

Please vote and let us know if you do, and at what age you started.

Post in this topic as well to discuss your choices. Did you wait until they were older? Why? Was it too scary? Were you simply not into it when they were young?

Also let us know what the best parts of reading it to/with your kids are. Do they enjoy it, or mearly tolerate it because you don't give them a choice?

If you don't, haven't yet, why not? Is it because the read them to themselves? They're simply not old enough? Or, are they grown and have gotten out of the habit of sitting on your lap and listening to stories?

This poll is intended to be fun and promote discussion, so please enjoy yourselves.

This post has been edited by coach: Jun 26 2006, 07:54 AM
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post Jun 26 2006, 11:53 AM
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I'm waiting to read to my 2˝ years-old. He isn't ready yet to sit and listen if there are no images to accompany the story. I expect to start and try soon though... within the next year. If I see he's still not old enough, I'll wait a bit more and try again.

Oh, and... he doesn't speak english, so I guess I'll have to get the books in french also... ponder.gif


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post Jun 26 2006, 12:15 PM
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I have tried to read HP to my 5 year old however he gets ancy after one page lol. But my 7 year old daughter has started reading it on her own, with my help of course. Now she likes to read to me, I think it helps knowing that her mom is a HP nut.


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post Jun 26 2006, 01:04 PM
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I really haven't gotten to that area of reading Hp to my children. There are to many words in there that I don't allow my children to say. So until then they will have to wonder for a while read.gif tongue.gif


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post Jun 26 2006, 01:49 PM
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Nope - I didn't read the books to either child (although they've both watched both movies).

I thought they needed to wait until they were able to read it to themselves before they'd be able to "handle" the book.

My daughter is now working her way through book 6.


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post Jun 27 2006, 08:24 AM
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It's good that most childerns minds are being expanded into reading books it is good to read. Me i have dilexsea but i do my best to read. thumbup.gif


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post Jun 27 2006, 10:09 AM
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I'm not a parent, but I voted for what my parents did for me. (Of course, this was before HP was a really big thing.)

My mom started reading the first book to me when I was seven, and once we were halfway through, I took off and finished it in a day and the second and third in a week. That was a very good age for me to start at. I think that if I had been much younger, I would have been too confused and scared by the books.


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post Jun 27 2006, 10:53 AM
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Not a parent but yes, I would definately ready to future children. And about 6 - 7 years would be the age when I think I'd begin to read the books to them! type.gif read.gif


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post Jun 27 2006, 12:36 PM
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I didn't read HP to my kids - I used it to try to encourage them to read it themselves, by tempting them with things like "Chapter 1 in 5 is called "Dudley Demented" - to encourage them to stop reading books that were way too easy for them.


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post Jun 30 2006, 11:06 AM
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An amusing thing happened after I had finished reading GoF to my two oldest. The younger of the two picked it up to read it for herself. She gave me a smile and said, "Mom, I think I'll read it to myself because you make it too scary!"

I haven't read OotP or HBP aloud to the kids because the two oldest and my husband read it at the same time I do, and the two youngest are a little too young for the content.


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