Rebecca, my ten year old is an avid reader, and just had brought home one of the Gossip Girl book series from the library at school to do her Accelerated Reading work. So here is how the conversation went:
Me: Honey aren't you a little young to be reading that series?
Becca (rolling her eyes): Mom, Ms. J said that it was for 5th grade on up, and it is in my reading range.
Me: Hmmm, If I am not mistaken there is teen sex portrayed in those books, and I do not think that is appropriate for you.
Becca: Oh Mom, I already know everything, and this wouldn't be the first book I read from the library where they talk about sex in it.
Me (in shock): Which other books have you read already?
Becca: The Princess Diaries series talks about it (it does?), and In that Alice series I like to read, they had a stripping party on the culdesac where they lived.
Me: Now Becca, you know the difference between right and wrong, I don't want you to think because you have read it that it makes it OK.
Becca: Mom, I promise I will not have sex or stripping parties....besides (she says with an that impish grin of hers) I can't anyway... we don't live on a culdesac.
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