Horrid henry-

[oopsagain]

i was reading a bit tods1 tonight.
and it's crap, isn't it?
It's jsut squabbling and no real consequences .
Seems tjust like our house on a daily basis.

Is the book putting ideas into his head, or is he just grumpy anyway???

I stopped half way thru and sais it was too boring to hear all this squabbling, as i get enough in RL anyway.

Now why can't it be about adventures and friendship?

I like charlie and lola, he's so nice to his little sister, and the pictures are fab

grrrr, horrid bloody henry, feck off!

My kids love HH and all the other characters. Luckily they love C&L too but don't seem to have picked up on the lovely relationship.

DD really enjoys it as do most of her class, and so do the children in the y1 class I teach.

Fortunately DD can read them to herself

Horrid Henry is just 'how not to bring up your children.' Parents are so wet. Really shouldn't let Ds watch it. I prefer Dennis the Mence as ds has figured he can't do any of those things in RL, unless he timetravels. Parents a little harder too. Ds is only 4 years and we get him Beano. Fab comic I love it, he loves it, so does DH.

You might not like it Oopsagain , but I don't think you are the target audience !!Most 5-7 year olds I have come across love HH

fair enough that i don't like it.
But there's no consequences for his actions... and he really isn't at all nice.

Ds1 is 5.5yrs old and reads them avidly.
I think he is a bit emotionally immature anyway and now I've read some of the stories i can see that his attitude shift recently is similar to HH behaviour.

But maybe all 5.5yr olds cheer when their brothers fall over, or persistnetly call him stupid.

We went to see Horid Henry LIve and Horrid - DD(3yo) is now blowing rspberrys at every one and calling them stinky poo pant.

I have a Horid Henry, though, and a Perfect Peter,although they have different names; so can relate to the characters - Have you read the maga Mean Time Machine - 'tis too, too funny!

Fortunately HH has not been well received in this house by either of my b/g twins....they find his naughtiness irritating and dull. Is there a TV series of HH? - we've only come across the books.

They love things like Jeremy James and Harry the Centipede and the Seriously Silly Stories.

My DS quite likes HH although he is not a huge fan.

I agree with you, though, and absolutely LOATHE it; but then I am really old-fashioned.

One of my biggest hates is the attitutude towards food: burgers, chips, pizza etc all good and desirable, green veg is YUCK. With childhood obesity a growing problem I can't help feeling that fewer negative messages about healthy food in children's books might be helpful! Not that I'm suggesting we have HH extolling the virtues of delicious cabbage - but perhaps not dissing it all the time.

I've never stopped DS reading them tho' just made sure they were well balanced with other stuff...

DD also went to see HH Live - she loved it. So far, luckily, DD has shown no HH tendancies. I think she just likes to live our her naughtiness through reading HH's antics instead

I had qualms about Horrid Henry books, too, because of the behaviour/dissing of healthy food - but in the end found they had no bad influence. I initially made sure any children's books I got were edifying, well-written etc. so this was the foundation of my child's reading, then he chose Horrid Henry himself in the bookshop and I let him get it; the double-take looks he gave me and his laughs out loud were priceless: he was shocked a reading book could be like this! And, crucially, it was the first book he really wanted to read to himself as well as out loud to us parents. So, in my experience, Horrid Henry was just a bit of a laugh. If worried, I'd start out reading for the first good few years with the edifying, well-written stuff, then when your child is old enough to want to make a choice for themselves, and if they choose Horrid Henry, you have already established a (for want of a better word) 'good' foundation.

HH is the sort of book for kids to read for themselves,if they like it, leaving you to read something better to them. (Same goes for Captain Underpants.)