Re: Book suggestion for 11 year old

"Chris Thompson" <cet1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> AJ <torturedartist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>"tphile" <tphile@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>On May 4, 1:11 pm, "AJ" <torturedart...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> Hey, i have an 11 year old. I want to encourage his reading a bit
more.
>>>> The problem is he's more of a sword and dragons guy wheras I was
always
>>>> more of a ray gun type.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>Tell him he is forbidden from reading any of those books.
>>>That will motivate him for sure.
>>>especially if you say they are too smutty for him.
>>
>>lol no he's still at the phase where I'm god.  not big G, but little g 
>>god.
>>lol.  Basically I'm the cooler older kid to him.
>
> Do I detect use of parental rose-tinted spectacles here? Unless he's a 
> quite
> unusual 11-year old, he's beginning to probe the boundaries by now. If
not 
> by
> reading forbidden books, then in some other way.
>
> -- 
> Chris Thompson
> Email: cet1 [at] cam.ac.uk

No, he's just starting the moody thing.  Which is good, mine was horrible.

Looking back I was a barely civilized beast at his age.

He's a genuinly good kid with my impulse control problems lol.