I LOVE a good cry......I read lots of books that make me cry: But my DD......

[Katymac]

Doesn't cry at anything

I cry when it's sad, I cry when it's happy - I cry even if I have read it 20 times before

Have I just not found the right book for her?
Is it because she isn't hormonal yet

So far she hasn'tr cried to
The Railway Children
Goodnight Mister Tom
The little Princess
Tom's midnight Garden

& loads of other I can't just think of now

Is this a major character flaw....does she take after her dad?

What can I give her to make her cry (because I always feel better afterwards)

Kid's books?

Charlotte's Web made me sob.

She has just finished that...not a tear

Or Heidi

I did't cry at anything till I had kids now I cry at anythiung.

My mum says I cried at the time as a child & so did she

The 6th Harry Potter is a tear-jerker. I read it straight through, cried, immediately re-read it to see if I'd missed anything and cried AGAIN! Even dd1 admitted to having a little sniffle.

I didn't cry over books till I was about 17
don't try to make her cry on purpose, tbh to me that just sounds mean!

MrsBadge - I found (& still find) it an emotional release - I can get upset (probably becauyse it doesn't matter)

She has had a rotten few weeks and I had her in tears last week, absolutly hysterical over virtually nothing - I wondered if crying over a book would be easier for her?

katymac - i'm like you - emotional release in tears and books help.

Black beauty still gets me years later as does little women, watership down etc.

has she tried watching dramatisations of the various books. I cry when watching Mister tom, little princess etc.

Nah - that hasn't worked either

i've cried at books and movies since i was a little kid but most of my friends didn't... i was always the laughing stock in the cinema

I cried at many a book but never in front of my mum

i think it is an adult thing - I sobbed as I read ds charlottes web and he kept saying what's wrong mummy it's only a story.

I think they distinguish between reality and fiction more than we do.

My DH takes the p greatly when I have a sob. often try and blame it on him

dp thinks it's hilarious too

So does my DH (& funnily enpough my dad does too)

My mum & I are jsut the same

goodnight mister tom made me cry when i taught it but not when i read it as a child because i was in my comfy loving home and it was all the same as snow white to me - as an adult you know it could be true

Oh and I also wept as I read "Skellig" to my class a few weeks ago - they all pretended not to notice! A truly gorgeous book.

I googled that & it looks so sad - I must get a copy