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[channonyarrow]

Some kids need grief counselling after reading Harry Potter.

Okay. See this? It's a big iron ball with spikes on. Some people call it a morningstar, some people call it an appointment.

I call it grief counselling.

It is a BOOK. Book =/= real life in this instance. In fact, I doubt most autobiographies = real life anymore.

This means that the nice person who dies at the end of Harry Potter ISN'T REAL. NOT REAL NOT REAL NEVER WAS REAL NEVER WILL BE REAL.

LIFE IS NOT AN A-HA VIDEO! And yes, I realise that that reference is about twenty years too old for these kids; so fucking what? YOU ARGUING WITH ME? YOU NEED SOME GRIEF COUNSELLING?

Seriously, I don't get it. But we'll pretend that I wasn't pleased by the death. I still don't get it. These kids must've read the Poky Little Puppy and cried. Or Three Little Kittens Who Lost Their Mittens and called CPS.

Entitlement much?

Comments

[paranoidgrl.livejournal.com]

Dude, they showed us "Old Yeller" in grade school when the teachers didn't feel like teaching. I don't get why people think kids are so fragile.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either - but it's having the knock-on effect of the kids thinking that they are as fragile as their parents want them to be. Christ.

We used to watch The Princess Bride and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, neither of which I remember being traumatised by - though admittedly the Monty Python was in tenth grade.

[graeae.livejournal.com]

My favorite movie when I was four was "Wolfen"... yet I don't feel traumatized. I wonder if I should worry about that.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

If you do, I'm qualified at grief counselling.

[graeae.livejournal.com]

As a parent of a pair of extremely young readers, that disturbs the fuck out of me. Yes, I do think that you need to keep an eye on your child and what they're reading but for a child to need grief counseling after reading a book? There are some serious issues involved, I think, beyond whatever Harry Potter is representing for these children.

Then again, the last time I watched Series of Unfortunate Events with the kids, Amaranth saw the part with the Happiest Elf and starting yelling, "My eyes! It burns!"

So perhaps my kids are just fucked up.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

I really agree with what paranoidgrl said in the comment above - that parents are treating their kids as fragile and the kids then believe that they are fragile.

Though that doesn't say anything about YOUR kids, you'll notice. YOUR kids are just STRANGE. *G*

[graeae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess it comes from all that shaking I did when they were little.

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

*mops drink from monitor*

Thank you. :P

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

*dies*

[calli-thaala.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[orionnoire.livejournal.com]

Oh, you mean those kids were upset about who died and not the possibility that now, Harry will never let Snape stir his cauldron of hot strong love? Pfft, where has today's youth priorities gone?

But seriously, if your kid needs grief counseling after reading HBP it's that a) the parents should have done something before, because the "fan" stage is long gone or b) it's the parents that need counseling. It will destroy a kid's self esteem any to be mollycoddled like he's made of glass.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

I agree that today's youth's priorities are in entirely the wrong direction. And with a judicious rewrite, Harry/Draco, though a ship I don't support, could have become a reality in that bathroom scene!

And I totally agree with you. It's a book. The kids are being treated wrong by their parents if they need grief counselling.

*gets out cane* When I was their age, the only reason we got grief counselling was cause one've mah classmates kilt hisself.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

For God's sake, don't let the kids read "Where the Red Fern Grows". or "Watership Down". Or... oh, hell, why are they being allowed to read again? Pfeh.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

I think they're pretty much limited to old Barney reruns. I just can't even get my head around this. IT'S A BOOK!

[gillen.livejournal.com]

Life is so an A-Ha video! You take that back!

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Or what? Are you going to burst out of your paper world on me?