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Mr Grim Reading Antman by Robert Addams

15 Jul 2012, 06:58 PM | Post: #11

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(15 Jul 2012 06:48 PM)Scribbler Wrote: Hmm, nice stories for a 10-year-old girl, does she like fairies, or maybe a unicorn?

I slightly ammended my previous post,a bit quick on the keyboard i feel. Blush

Thats my point though Scribbler,i dont want my girl to read them,that is why i would like some kind of blocker.

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LindaGruchy Reading The Chandelier Ballroom by Elizabeth Lord

15 Jul 2012, 08:00 PM | Post: #12

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I remember being upset by Grimm's fairy tales and terrifired of Elidore on TV at that age.

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Baggins Reading Stonewylde series and cant wait for the next book

16 Jul 2012, 12:07 AM | Post: #13

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Mr Grim, Give her two years and she will be light years ahead of us old uns and be able to hack into anything. You told her not to look, so she will at some point. There are far worse on TV at all times of day & night, nice to see she has taken to reading.
Some of us probably remember reading horror many years ago and are none the worse for it, at last with a book you dont have to turn the next page, unlike TV

Good luck, I am sure she will turn out ok

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16 Jul 2012, 04:29 PM | Post: #14

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Telling her they are horror stories that'd probably give her nightmares would probably lead to a completely different result than saying they are your books and she's not to read them! I know when I was ten the last thing I'd want to read were scary stories my Dad read!

Perhaps if there are only certain books that you really don't want her to read, you could copy them onto your computer and delete them from your Amazon archive, that way they won't be available on her Kindle. In the short term that's all you can do. In the long term, you could email Kindle support and asking them if it's something they would consider adding to the Kindle?

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Mr Grim Reading Antman by Robert Addams

17 Jul 2012, 05:36 PM | Post: #15

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Thats a good idea I_macd.Thanks.

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survivalistfictionlover Reading What to do When Someone Dies - Nicci French

03 Aug 2012, 04:28 PM | Post: #16

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Ooh Ooh, I saw this thread the other day and I couldn't think of anything that would help but I have just come across this. And if you look in the "included in this update" section it says:

Quote: Parental Controls that allow you to restrict access to the Experimental Web Browser, Archived Items, and the Kindle Store.

I had a bit of a look around and I found that if you go into settings>parental controls you can password protect archived items. When you have finished reading one of your horror books you can remove it from your device and then just redownload everytime you need to read. You would be in exactly the same place and it would stop your daughter from seeing that they were on there.

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03 Aug 2012, 08:53 PM | Post: #17

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Both my 10 year old and 16 year old have their own Kindles.
The 10 year old's is on her Dad's Amazon account. There is no credit or debit card details linked to the account and if she wants to buy books then I order her an Amazon gift voucher from my account and then apply it to his/her's.
If he wants to buy anything from Amazon he uses my account and if our 10 year old buys anything the order email is sent to him so he can keep an eye on what she buys.
It's not perfect but it works for us.

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DavidWhy Reading Odd Thomas 5: Odd Apocolypse

26 Sep 2012, 08:37 PM | Post: #18

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You should have saved them in a folder named 'Politics and Economics'. The only thing I can think to do now would be to drown those books in a sea of other free titles so there are so many books the chances of her landing on an offensive one are made a lot less.

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ElaineG Reading Standers by Dale Brumfield

27 Sep 2012, 07:19 AM | Post: #19

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(26 Sep 2012 08:37 PM)DavidWhy Wrote: You should have saved them in a folder named 'Politics and Economics'. The only thing I can think to do now would be to drown those books in a sea of other free titles so there are so many books the chances of her landing on an offensive one are made a lot less.

i agree - just put them in a collection with a really boring title and play the whole thing down, try not to make a fuss out of it. When I think about it, for years Stephen King has sat next to Horrid Henry on my bookshelf and the kids have never taken the blindest bit of notice of Stephen King, purely because I never mentioned it or told them not to touch my books. Putting the books on a Kindle bookshelf shouldn't really make much difference.

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I ♥ my Kindle Reading The Dead by Charlie Higson

28 Sep 2012, 09:52 PM | Post: #20

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I read my first 'adult' horror book at 13 and have been hooked ever since.
I read horror aimed at children when in the juniors, previous to that all I wanted to read about was horses!

Make a big thing about it and she'll be curious.
I am guessing that at her age, if she reads anything 'dodgy' and finds it scary, she will read it no more.

As somebody else mentioned, I've also always had horror books around (including Shaun Hutson) and my kids showed absolutely no interest in trying to read them.

Maybe get her some Goosebumps books to read.

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