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Hi everyone, Melissa CloudMom.com, hope you're doing well today! Asking a very simple question
today on the vlog CloudMom.com with respect to the Harry Potter series, should you try
to encourage your kids to read the books before they see the movie? Or should you just not
worry about it? So here's the thing that I'm sort of running into I think ideally,
I'm hoping, my boys will read the books before they see the movie. My first one has
read the books and he's now been making his way through the movies. He usually has
one friend who comes over and they watch the movie in our bed actually. My husband and
I camped out in the laundry room with the other kids asleep, but that's another story.
Anyway this is posing a problem with my other kids that have yet to read those books and
they are annoyed and they think they should get to see the movies. So I'm like, what
do I do? So on the one hand I want to encourage my kids to read and those books are supposed
to be such a right of passage for kids, although they are complicated. Some people say they're
scary. On the other hand, at a certain point, I don't want my kids feeling totally left
out, especially if they don't feel like their able to read those books and have them
be in a situation where everyone else has seen the movie and they have not. Here's
the another thing, if the movie is playing at a kids birthday party or something I mean
you're not going to run in there like crazy mom and say "Don't show that movie to
my kid!" I mean everybody would think that you were bonkers! And how terrible would that
be for your kids. So anyway here's what I plan to do, I'm going to sort of try and
give it time. And not encourage my younger kids to see those movies until I feel as though
they are old enough and ready to try to read the books and give it a good shot. But if
at a certain point, if they still haven't read the books I'm going to be like "Fine,"
and just let them see the movies because I don't want them to say "I never was able
to see the Harry Potter movies for my whole youth." Anyway, this is just sort of a random
question when it comes to reading and encouraging your kids to read and then also trying to
balance that with wanting to make sure that they don't feel left out too much in terms
of what other kids are doing. So I just thought I'd ask other moms- have you dealt with
this issue, especially with respect to Harry Potter? And what are you doing about it? So
that's it for today, hope everybody is doing well. Please weigh in on this issue on CloudMom.com
and see you next time.