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Posted: Oct 28 2008 at 1:02pm | IP Logged Quote stefoodie
They embellish so much that often it's not just a direct narration. Should I limit the practice, and insist that they stay faithful to the original story, or just do "faithful narrations" once in a while?

my 9-yo's blog

one of my 12-yo's writing exercises

I don't like the propensity to violence, e.g., guns introduced into a story when it wasn't there originally (dh doesn't agree, no surprise there), but I'm not sure if I should just focus on technique, grammar, etc. and leave their creativity alone. Or rechannel...?

PS I should probably mention that I don't know where exactly the violence is coming from, except scouting stuff (my 12-yo just got back from a rifle and shotgun outing with dad and today the 9-yo's getting a replacement nerf gun)... we don't have violent video games in the house -- the most violent that they play is Age of Empires on the PC, no Wii's or Play Stations etc. no Gameboys, etc. We're very picky about movies and the last violent one we watched was Iron Man where 99% of the violent scenes were forwarded and they didn't get to see. Our daddy friends and my own dh and a few moms-of-boys all insist it's "a guy thing" and that I shouldn't be too worried.

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Posted: Oct 29 2008 at 12:27pm | IP Logged Quote Rachel May
Ok, I thought the stories were a scream. Incredibly, like, funny, dude!

I think my impulse would be to have narration be faithful to the original. My understanding is that the idea is to have them pay attention to the detail, rich language, paragraphing etc. in the original.

However, since you had them do multiple endings, I think you could say in one ending they can do whatever they want creative writing style. Or occasionally say this time I read the story and you get to rewrite it however you think it would be most interesting. Just a thought.

I don't know about the violence. My kids like to play guns, and although I think of myself as picky they definitely are exposed more than your kids. However, the violence ends when the game is over and there aren't general violent tendencies. It is a little hard to keep our kids from playing war when their dad is a soldier. So I guess as long as their general behavoir is good, I wouldn't let it fuss me much. I think....

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