I object to my son being given reading books about drunk horses

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He is five years old and reading stage 6 of the Oxford Reading Tree. He was given an ORT book called Rotten apples. Its about a horse which gets drunk by eating rotten apples.

My son has no concept of what it means to be drunk. He leads a sheltered life and for the time being I want to keep it that way.

I wrote in his reading record that I felt that the book he was given was not age approipate. His teacher has written back that it is impossible to know whether reading books that are sent home are age appriopate or not.

Personally I think this is bollox.

I was 5
I knew that horses got drunk and colicky from too many apples and I dealt with it.
Noe he will know not to feed lots of apples to horses.

Oh for God's sake. It's a book and you can poke fun at a horse. It means nothing if you read it quickly, have a laugh at rubbish pictures and stimulate his imagination. Books need not reflect real life. Do know what you mean though. Have never seen a drunk horse either.

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Is it really?

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I think YABU. It's just about a horse actong silly and maybe an in joke for parents

YABU. (I like YABAW a lot.)

Has anyone listened to Alec Baldwin's insane ranting to his 11yo further down that link of SEA's at 17.46? It is

I reckon you are just showing off that your 5yo is reading Stage 6 books

When ds was 6 he was given a reading book about racists leafleting people on a high-rise estate, complete with the racist term they used. I can't remember if it was ORT or Heinemann. Now that was unsuitable- it involved a great deal of explanation that I would prefer not to have arisen at that stage. I would have greatly preferred drunken horses

So can i eat some old apples and get pissed tonight then?
(A lot cheaper than the bottles of Smirnoff Ice that i love..)

Really, i have never heard of that before..

god I still love this title

You are being totally unreasonable.

who me?

No! OP

sorry, was teasing