Not that I'm in this position, I'm pushing 50 with no kids so it's obviously not happening, but it struck me for some reason that my home is full of nightmare fuel – big Military history coffee table books full of graphic battlefield photos, art/photography books which are 100% not kid friendly, horror/SF fiction, graphic novels which are certainly graphic, even the sleeves on my record collection, horror/SF DVD's etc. Did you have to sanitize your collections to make them child friendly when your kids became of an age when they might stumble across something potentially traumatizing? If so, was that a weird thing to have to do, and how did you approach that?
by HammerOvGrendel
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The kids had their own bookshelves, and we moved books that were not appropriate to higher shelves in the living room. But we didn’t have a significant collection of inappropriate stuff, just a few books that were an inappropriate genre or particularly disturbing. There was always so much reading material about that they didn’t really spend time poking around our shelves.
I’d love to hear other people’s response to this. I have some spicy books that need to be hidden somehow. I’m considering having a separate bookshelf in my room, but I hate the idea of breaking up my library into multiple libraries.
FWIW, I remember spending a lot of time going through my mom’s medical textbooks and journals and looking at all the pictures as a young kid. A lot of it was graphic, with photographs of organs and all, but it never particularly bothered or traumatized me.