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I was talking with a friend who divulged she was having trouble with her daughter’s attitude. “Everyone else was reading it, so I thought that was how I had to be to be liked.” About six months after the “ban,” she picked up a copy of the book and said, “wow – I didn’t realize how mean she was.” I asked her why she acted like her if she didn’t like her and her reply was simple. Over the course of the next few months, my kid returned to herself. This sole character was her influence – her guide to how she should be. It was no wonder my child’s own diary has become quite nasty. What should have been just a normal conversation would become a blown up drama-fest. Written as a victim, she was petty, shallow, and downright condescending. What I found was the main character far from what I wanted my child to become. So doing what I should have done from the start, I sat down and read it.
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How could a book have this capability to change a person? The next day, I google searched “Dork Diaries bad influence” and found parent reviews stating they had found the same. She paused and said nothing for quite a while and finally said, “It’s a book.”
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I looked her straight in the eye and said, “tell me the person, the tv show, the book, the whatever it is that has made you think it is okay to act this way or you do nothing until you tell me. Many called it “tween years.” I called it unacceptable. She had become a bit of a thing I call “too cool for school.” Her grandparents seemed strangers, her little brother a nuisance and her parents, totally out of touch. This was not the child I knew but yet, was not entirely shocked it came out of her mouth. The kid who just two years later would dedicate her tenth birthday to projects to better the lives of others turned to her little brother and said, “Why don’t you have anyone over? Don’t you have any friends?” Of course, some of this is normal pre-teen changes and then there was our world. The title lending to the idea that probably the main character was picked on and wrote in her diary to come to terms to be stronger than her middle school bullies.Īs the year went on, I started to notice my generally sweet daughter turn snide.
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To look at the book, it seemed innocent enough – fun drawings, font replicating an artsy, creative world. She read and re-read them, making every new book her favorite accessory. At eight years old, our daughter devoured Dork Diaries.