Cant Keep Up With DS Reading

[1growingsprout]

This is a bit of a take on the post where mom is reading 2-3 different books at a time...
Up until now I've tried to pre-read or at least look at the books my kids read. DS 6 is reading at such a rapid pace there is no way i can keep up and DD 4 isnt far behind. Dont get me wrong, i love that my kids are literate very early in life and we frequent the library 2-3x a week.

When do you stop pre-reading your kids material? Im pretty liberal about what I allow and dont censor much of anything written.

[moominmamma]

Oh my gosh, it never occurred to me to pre-read things for my kids. My eldest was reading a thousand pages a day at age 5 and there simply weren't enough hours in the day....

Once in a long while I would take a peek at a choice one of my kids made and say "this looks like it might have some disturbing stuff in it" or "this looks like it's subject matter intended for much older kids" and suggest that they might want to look for something else. If not, if they're still keen, I'll usually suggest we save it for use as a readaloud.

Miranda

[Lillian J]

I never preread anything. Have actually never heard of that. I guess it could happen that some things come along that are innappropriate - as Miranda mentioned - but it just never happened to us. Well, actually - duh! - come to think of it, I was still reading *to* my son till he was 12 (as far as fiction was concerned)! He was reading non-fiction books for information, though, all along, and I never had any thoughts that he might come across anything to be concerned about. Lillian

[NoHiddenFees]

I pretty much stopped pre-reading after DD1 polished off some pretty horrific fairy tales just after she turned four and wanted more. Aside from read-aloud, I do occasionally read some of her books out of curiosity, and I do read about books I'm not familiar with before purchasing/borrowing and also before choosing to move them to "her" bookcase. I don't choose what she reads per se, but so far I have made all the buying/borrowing decisions (I'm a bit of a compulsive purchaser/borrower of books so we have a huge home library from which she can choose material), and I do make some things easier to access. Because she can't sift through more than a couple books without starting to read, this system works well for us. She literally has hundreds of books within reach of her bed, so she hasn't yet moved on to the more mature stuff in the "other" bookcases. There was no planning on my part; this is just the way it worked out.

I've tapped in to lists of books for precocious readers and have based many purchases on them. Here a previous thread to which I've suggested titles and included links to some other threads and resources. There's also another thread here talking about classics for young children.