What's wrong with the Twilight series??

[krcit]

I'm just being curious. I have seen a few people post that their kids are not allowed to see/read the Twilight series. I just read the first 2 books and saw the movies and I'm stumped There is no sex, no cursing in fact they were the tamest books/movies I've ever read/seen. My girls have zero interest...oldest saw the first movie and thought it stunk but I would have no objection to them seeing the movies and would actually love them to read the books b/c they never read!

 

[mickeylove2]

I'm just being curious. I have seen a few people post that their kids are not allowed to see/read the Twilight series. I just read the first 2 books and saw the movies and I'm stumped There is no sex, no cursing in fact they were the tamest books/movies I've ever read/seen. My girls have zero interest...oldest saw the first movie and thought it stunk but I would have no objection to them seeing the movies and would actually love them to read the books b/c they never read!

Well, this is not my opinion, but what I've heard from others. Some parents don't want their kids to be interested in a love story where the teenagers feel that they are so in love that they can't live without the other one. Bella seems so lost without Edward in her life, she goes through a serious depression for months when he leaves, then when he hears that she's dead he tries to commit suicide. They don't want their kids to think that that type of teen love is ok. Instead of looking at the story as just a story, kids may emulate the series in their own love life.

 

[luvmy3]

I guess some people think vampire love stories are too mature of a subject for their younger children. I think for some that it may be that the writing is less than stellar and the acting is far from it

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

I'm just being curious. I have seen a few people post that their kids are not allowed to see/read the Twilight series. I just read the first 2 books and saw the movies and I'm stumped There is no sex, no cursing in fact they were the tamest books/movies I've ever read/seen. My girls have zero interest...oldest saw the first movie and thought it stunk but I would have no objection to them seeing the movies and would actually love them to read the books b/c they never read!

Wait until you get to the 4th book ......

 

[krcit]

Well, this is not my opinion, but what I've heard from others. Some parents don't want their kids to be interested in a love story where the teenagers feel that they are so in love that they can't live without the other one. Bella seems so lost without Edward in her life, she goes through a serious depression for months when he leaves, then when he hears that she's dead he tries to commit suicide. They don't want their kids to think that that type of teen love is ok. Instead of looking at the story as just a story, kids may emulate the series in their own love life.

Interesting. I guess Romeo and Juliet is out then too

 

[krcit]

Wait until you get to the 4th book ......

ohh, I can't wait! I'm getting bored

 

[golfgal]

It's the same thing that happened with the Harry Potter books, some extremists that never read the books jumped on the bandwagon that the books are horrible and will turn your children into cult followers of evil so then those parents that think they are being great parents by limiting everything their child does starts spouting off about how evil the books are, having never read the books to begin with.

Now, if you want to talk about how poorly written the books are, that is another story. They are simply entertaining novels nothing more, nothing less.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Well DD12 read them just to see what all the hub bub was about but greatly disliked them. Her issues were (and I quote from an email she wrote and copied me on):
"They sound like a 10 year old wrote them--especially the first two"
"It is really creepy that the book goes on and one about how wonderful some guy who stalks her and even sneaks into her room at night is. That is not romantic; it is really, really wrong. And Bella only loves him because he is so good looking and pale and cold which we get told on almost every page AND becuase he tells her that he feels constantly compelled to kill her but doesn't becuase he loves her. I don't think that is romantic, I just think it is sick."

The friends she has who are not allowed to read them either becuase they deal with the supernatural OR (SPOLIER ALERT__THIS GIVES AWAY SOMETHING FROM THE LAST BOOK)





















becuase eventually the characters do have sex (they are married by then and it is not even remotely graphic--basically they go to bed and wake up the next morning with the room torn up).

 

[luvmy3]

Wait until you get to the 4th book ......

I just recently let dd read the 4th book, she had read the others last year but I was holding off giving her this one until I felt she could really understand it. Since I had given her the whole birds and bees talk I figured now was the time

 

[puffkin]

Well, this is not my opinion, but what I've heard from others. Some parents don't want their kids to be interested in a love story where the teenagers feel that they are so in love that they can't live without the other one. Bella seems so lost without Edward in her life, she goes through a serious depression for months when he leaves, then when he hears that she's dead he tries to commit suicide. They don't want their kids to think that that type of teen love is ok. Instead of looking at the story as just a story, kids may emulate the series in their own love life.

I also don't agree with this...but that is the reasoning many parents give. I do have to say though that I have a 12 year old niece who is very absorbed in puppy love and gets quite fanatical about her little boyfriends (you should see some of her facebook posts ). When she started to really get into these books and movies I did warn her mom (who never read them) to just keep an eye on her and maybe discuss some of the subject matter. I even offered myself as a resource since her mom has not read the books. I don't think there is any reason my niece shouldn't read them, but I do think her parents need to be aware of the subject matter because of her personality.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I just recently let dd read the 4th book, she had read the others last year but I was holding off giving her this one until I felt she could really understand it. Since I had given her the whole birds and bees talk I figured now was the time

But did you give her the vampires and werewolve talk as well

 

[krcit]

Well DD12 read them just to see what all the hub bub was about but greatly disliked them. Her issues were (and I quote from an email she wrote and copied me on):
"They sound like a 10 year old wrote them--especially the first two"
"It is really creepy that the book goes on and one about how wonderful some guy who stalks her and even sneaks into her room at night is. That is not romantic; it is really, really wrong. And Bella only loves him because he is so good looking and pale and cold which we get told on almost every page AND becuase he tells her that he feels constantly compelled to kill her but doesn't becuase he loves her. I don't think that is romantic, I just think it is sick."

The friends she has who are not allowed to read them either becuase they deal with the supernatural OR becuase eventually the characters do have sex (they are married by then and it is not even remotely graphic--basically they go to bed and wake up the next morning with the room torn up).

Spoiler alert

Your dd sounds like a very smart young lady! I agree...I read the 1st b/c someone gave it to me but I had to take a break before the second to give my brain a break

 

[golfgal]

Well, this is not my opinion, but what I've heard from others. Some parents don't want their kids to be interested in a love story where the teenagers feel that they are so in love that they can't live without the other one. Bella seems so lost without Edward in her life, she goes through a serious depression for months when he leaves, then when he hears that she's dead he tries to commit suicide. They don't want their kids to think that that type of teen love is ok. Instead of looking at the story as just a story, kids may emulate the series in their own love life.

With DD and her friends they pretty much think Bella is a wimp and whines too much so it has had the opposite effect on them

 

[NY Disney fan]

Interesting. I guess Romeo and Juliet is out then too

Romeo and Juliet are horrible love role models. Its not even drama, its melodrama. Like the Spanish soap operas on Univision. Its like give me a break, real life doesn't work like that!

 

[NHdisneylover]

Spoiler alert

Your dd sounds like a very smart young lady! I agree...I read the 1st b/c someone gave it to me but I had to take a break before the second to give my brain a break

Thanks--she is a pretty awesome kid (some of the time--other times she is jsut a ball of hormones that no one wants to be around).
I did not even think about spoiling things--I am so SO sorry. I thought that was very common knowledge. I will go back and edit things.

 

[luvmy3]

But did you give her the vampires and werewolve talk as well

 

[krcit]

With DD and her friends they pretty much think Bella is a wimp and whines too much so it has had the opposite effect on them

Bella is a horror. I don't get the appeal, she walks around with a snotty look on her face all the time. I have seen Kristin stewart on a few talk shows and she is BORING(or stoned)

Ok, I am waaaay too old to be obsessing over this stuff!

 

[Gabes_mommy]

Bella is a horror. I don't get the appeal, she walks around with a snotty look on her face all the time. I have seen Kristin stewart on a few talk shows and she is BORING(or stoned)

Ok, I am waaaay too old to be obsessing over this stuff!

She's probably stoned. There are pictures of her smoking on the web. I am pretty sure she's a pot head.

What's wrong with Twilight? Hmm, besides being really poorly written?

It does promote obsessiveness in relationships - no teenage girl should be as fixated on a boy as Bella is on Edward IMO. As for the sex - technically Bella and Edward are not intimate until they are married, so I think that is actually a good thing about the books.

 

[HM]

My daughter14 never liked to read, at all.

Her friends read the Series and suggested them to her. I bought her the first book, but she never picked it up, so I eventually read it ....and then borrowed the other two (Breaking Dawn wasn't out yet) from her friend. (DD says you can't borrow MY friends books....ha, yes I can). I enjoyed them as a very different type of book/story than I'd usually read. I kept telling her to try them out. (I really wanted her to start reading SOMETHING). I've read all four twice now and will likely pick them up again before too long.

Maybe a year later, DD finally picked up Twilight and read it and was pulled in and read the rest. This was the start of a voracious reader!! Since last summer, she's been reading a book every day or two, and we are constantly at the library. I am very happy that she finally reads, because it's helping her be faster/better at reading in school too.

So for me, Twilight was a godsend, like many parents who found that the Harry Potter books started a love of reading for their children. (She's read most of them now too).

 

[tink1969]

Well, this is not my opinion, but what I've heard from others. Some parents don't want their kids to be interested in a love story where the teenagers feel that they are so in love that they can't live without the other one. Bella seems so lost without Edward in her life, she goes through a serious depression for months when he leaves, then when he hears that she's dead he tries to commit suicide. They don't want their kids to think that that type of teen love is ok. Instead of looking at the story as just a story, kids may emulate the series in their own love life.

Then why do we read Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' for school?