Surprised by the language in some oder childrens books...

[BetterCallBarry]

I was reading the Demon Headmaster to my children and two chapters in the children are calling eachother idiot and saying shut up. The mum also describes one of the boys as fat and the author writes rolly polly.

How did I never notice this before?

Meant older in the title 😵

That's nothing. You should read some books from the 50s and 60s full of racial slurs.

They use the language of their time. Today's books will look very strange, and quite likely be deemed 'wrong' or 'bad', when your DCs are adults.

There's a thread running right now about things that were deemed acceptable once upon a time and the op is wondering what is acceptable now that won't be in the future.

This is the same thing, when the book was written it would have been of its time so would have been "fine".

Tbh children calling each other an idiot and saying shut up isn't exactly scandalous in this day and age.

A mum calling her child fat is not very nice and I can't picture that ever being ok but were they painting a picture of her parenting and showing that she wasn't nice?