New bedtime story started

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Tonight I read the first chapter of Steven Gould's _Wildside_ to the boys, after rejecting _Jumper_ as having motivations and relationships they weren't going to be able to understand yet.

It seems to have gone over well. Z is hypothesizing himself to sleep over the passenger pigeons.

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after rejecting _Jumper_ as having motivations and relationships they weren't going to be able to understand yet.

Chalk that partly up to your excellent parenting so far, that the motivations of an abusive father would basically not occur to them as having any basis in reality...

I am surprised at Wildside, though--it was a bit scary for me when I read it at age...urm...26? Perhaps being pinned by hyena is scarier when you can really visualize it happening.

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IN chapter one we see that Joey has an alcohol problem. So we're discussing why people drink alcohol and how some people have problems with it and that coffee doesn't really help.

The kids are fine with predators acting the way predators do; if the imagery gets too vivid I will skip a bit.

They were quite interested in Kip's adventures in _Have Spacesuit..._, some of which are pretty scary. E has asked for a smart, adventurous protagonist with hair color matching his in the next book we read -- I'll have to look around.