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twaddle

Name: CHEC Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-06-12T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-14T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Denver, CO

Tagged: twaddle

This topic has 3 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 8 months ago by Monica.

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September 8, 2016 at 11:28 pm
Eirana Doyle
Participant
Hi ladies,
Can anyone give me a definition for twaddle. My daughter really likes the “Series of Unfortunate Events” book but I am wondering if they are twaddle.
September 8, 2016 at 11:44 pm
Melanie32
Participant
I can’t think of an exact definition for twaddle but I can give you my understanding of it. Twaddle is anything that talks down to the child as well as any books that are just pure fluff with no depth.
I wouldn’t classify the Series of Unfortunate Events books as complete twaddle. I think they could have their place at a certain reading level.
When I think of twaddle, books like the Captain Underpants books or The Babysitters’ Club come to mind. They write down to children, lack complex sentence structure and rich vocabulary and are just shallow-they don’t provide any meat for the children to chew on-no food for thought.

September 9, 2016 at 10:42 am
Karen Smith
Moderator
Here is a video of Sonya explaining twaddle. Scroll down the page to About Twaddle. The video under the title is the one you want.
You may also find our blog article on twaddle useful.
September 9, 2016 at 3:31 pm
Monica
Participant
My son loves the Lemony Snickets’ series, too. It’s not my favorite, but he enjoys books and movies that are dark. They are some of the few books he will read willingly.
I will share that the author’s tendency to define difficult words within the text of the book has taught him several new words. 😉
DH read them aloud, my DS read them to himself, and my DS listened to the audio books incessantly for a while. They are that entertaining to him.