Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for April 05, 2019

She doesn’t want to start graphic nightmares at this age. He’ll get them soon enough.

When their kids were little, my brother and his wife altered the whole story of Little Red Riding Hood, not just the ending. They felt it was unfair to wolves that they were always portrayed as the bad guys in children’s stories. They believed that no animal is worse than any other.

It is too bad there are not more parents like this.

I want to listen to Vicky’s bedtime stories!

I used to read to my mother when she was was working on her quilts/afghans/etc. I would censor them (but not change them).

I only censored one story in my life, a French tale, Mr Seguin’s goat. It ends badly as the goat dies after fighting the wolf all night long. My nephew and niece were a little too small for that kind of story so I changed the ending. When they were older I told the real story.

love when they put the little heart of love above Pasquale!

Is she reading him “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie”? (When Calvin’s dad made some editorial changes to that book, the strip ended with Hobbes wondering if the townsfolk would ever find Hamster Huey’s head.)

Depends on the story. With some, one revises at risk of being told, That’s not the way it goes., as children remember more than we think

What is she reading to him? Stephen King’s “It”?

I don’t remember many of the fairy tales from my youth. But some I think were designed to scare children into being good. Whatever works IMO. We don’t all respond to higher level motivation.

I read some of the books assigned to my kiddo when she was in middle school. I wasn’t particularly fond of them and it gave me a chance to talk about them with her. I loved bed time stories. We continued that up until she got to middle school. Stories, of course, became more advanced as she got older. In the end we were sharing novels at bedtime, one chapter at a time.

My friend is an active grammy, and we were talking about the books available to kids today. Check out the “lit” board books for toddlers at Amazon (just to see what some are “hawking.” There’s a “Classic Baby Lit Collection set” that includes, Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, Sherlock Holmes, Moby Dick, Jane Eyre, Alice in Wonderland, Jungle Book, and the Wizard of Oz. Talk about a mixed bag. . .

… and they all lived a moderately happy life for an appropriate amount of time thereafter. The end.

I like to change endings to “they all lived happily and had many more adventures”

I altered stories all the time.. and usually the kids would call me on it!

Tell that to the guy who thought he could live with the polar bears

I think it’s a perfect idea to “alter” what you’re reading to a child to reflect your own personal biases and to possibly avoid “improper” thoughts or nightmares. That is, after all, what T.T.A.G. William Barr is doing for republicans and the rest of America vis-à-vis the Mueller Report (such a “caring” and “thoughtful” person.) /s

Just watch out when Vickie takes over the Editing duties.

The competent authorities, parents and grandparents, have all the copyright to the story’s ending.