Name: ICHE Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
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February 27, 2013 at 10:47 pm
Sara B.
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My kids got some books for Christmas (yes, I know, I am very slow at getting through stuff LOL), and I’m not sure if they are worth keeping or not. I’ll include links to Amazon if I can find them. Anyone have thoughts?
Tacky in Trouble by Helen Lester
http://www.amazon.com/Tacky-Trouble-Penguin-Helen-Lester/dp/0618380086/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362004893&sr=8-1&keywords=tacky+in+trouble
Franklin Has a Sleepover (Scholastic) by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark
http://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Has-Sleepover-Paulette-Bourgeois/dp/0590617591/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362004969&sr=1-1&keywords=franklin+has+a+sleepover+0590617591
Hansel and Gretel by Rita Balducci (a small older-toddler version of a Golden Book)

February 27, 2013 at 11:45 pm
nebby
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We read a lot of Franklin books when my oldest was little but I’ve come to not like that genre. They are kind of preachy. It’s not so much that they are twaddle but that they are so deliberate in dealing with an issue that they are very blatantly moralistic. I don’t think Charlotte would have liked those kinds of books (and there are oodles of them out there these days).
Nebby
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February 28, 2013 at 12:08 am
suzukimom
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I like the occasional Franklin – but I do think that although the stories of some are bettern than most twaddle – that some are definately moralistic. I think CM warned against story books about children and their doings (which I would classify this as… although some good books are about that…) – I think there was also some “words” about books that are sickly moralistic…
One other thing I found out years ago is not to have that type of book that discusses a problem your child doesn’t have – I’ve found that it is morel likely to CAUSE the problem. I am kicking myself because we got a free copy of “Bernestine Bears get in a Fight” – the interactive computer book (so you click on things and something happens) – and all it did was teach my kids new ways to bicker and fight. (it acted that part out.) ARGH! Of course the way to resolve it wasn’t learned – jsut the fighting.
February 28, 2013 at 7:18 pm
LDIMom
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We don’t have Franklin, but we love Berenstein Bears and find that they DO show how to find resolution. So if they are similar to that, I would be OK with them. I wouldn’t want a shelf full, but an occasional one would be fine here. I don’t know about Tacky. I have slowly weeded out the twaddle, but we do still have a bit of it. If I don’t have a few books, my kids gravitate toward it at the library. I would rather whet their appetite for it here (so I can control what and how much), than have them bombarded at the library and want a lot of it. I have talked to our librarian about it, and she agrees it would be great to have less of it and separate it … but our suggestions fall on deaf ears it seems.