Harry Potter books?

[other one]

It's not my place to decide, but I would not ban them from my grand kids, but use them as a teaching tool.    The books are pure fiction and nothing like real witchcraft so it is easy for them to understand that while the books are not real they are playing around with something that is.....    most people just tell their kids that witches are not real so it's just a game...    it isn't a game and more and more each day it becomes more prevalent.

Like I said, it is a teaching tool.   

but I would not let them read the books unsupervised.

[LadyKay]

27 minutes ago, maryjayne said:

Why do you think they are for nine year olds?

11 years old is the recommend age. That is the age they start going to Hogwarts. 

[missmuffet]

10 hours ago, Melinda12 said:

Would you ban your children from reading them? 

I would. Spells, sorcery. Not what Christians should ever have anything to do with. The Influences on young minds is bad news in my view. 

I would not allow my children to read the books or see the movies. It is not healthy for the Christian to focus on sorcery and witches. If my children had questions about them because their friends read these books I would be honest with them and tell them that God wants us to be obedient to Him. 

[missmuffet]

8 hours ago, Who me said:

And what about disney's use of magic?

The 'magic' of the marvel super heros, power rangers and of course how do you stop them encountering antichristian ideas?

 

Better to train them to know what is good and to defend that, then to deny them the chance to learn about other ideas.

Well Walt Disney was an atheist. Enough said?

[LadyKay]

21 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

Well Walt Disney was an atheist. Enough said?

But watching Disney did not turn me into an atheist.  Or I would belong to some other message forum and not this one. 

[LadyKay]

23 minutes ago, maryjayne said:

Out of interest, what books would people on here let their children read?

My kid likes the "Diary of A Wimpy Kid" books.   

[other one]

33 minutes ago, maryjayne said:

Out of interest, what books would people on here let their children read?

last month when we visited our grand children my 10 year old was reading "little women"

[IloveyouGod.]

I am personally have watched two of the movies and I find that they are completly evil very un-christian, and I am supposed to be of the age that likes them, I found them so bad that they gave me nightmares for months.  That said if you where to sit down and read them with your kids and carefully discuss each part of the book, and explain what is christian and what is not, then they could be a good teaching tool for older children.    

I personally have read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, and I find that if you do it right they are actully very good books, for older children who have a established understanding of what is christian and what is not, probally 11 and up, if I remember corectly the author was christian, not sure though. 

I liked The Chronicals of Narnia, by CS Lewis great books, I also like a book called redemming love by Francine Rivers, I am personally a teenager so not good for young children under the age of 12, I also like a book called An Eye For and Eye, I forgot who the author was, it is christian, but it does have a christian romance, nothing gross though, just a couple kisses (Gross) Not for young readers though. 

[other one]

15 minutes ago, other one said:

last month when we visited our grand children my 10 year old was reading "little women"

her birthday is at the end of the month and one of my presents will be::::

 

[missmuffet]

1 hour ago, LadyKay said:

But watching Disney did not turn me into an atheist.  Or I would belong to some other message forum and not this one. 

That is one of the arguments that people give for reading this kind of stuff. It is compromising your faith. People want to do what they want to do.