When do you stop vetting your child’s book choices?

[PinotAndPlaydough]

Interested to hear when parent leave their kids to it and just let them read what they want.

I’ve read some articles saying that vetting reading can be counterproductive and it benefits children to read what they want and then in the flip side there is lots with parents up in arms that their 8 year child has got hold of a Jacquline Wilson book.

My daughter (10) is an avid reader and wants to read adult books (such as Stephen king) she’s autistic so some adult themes she just wouldn’t understand and she doesn’t scare easily, but then again I don’t want her reading books with any graphic sex scenes, rape etc.

It’s a bloody minefield at this age, her reading level is much higher than her age. So what’s everyone’s view on this?

merryhouse it was my mother... and she had a cabinet full of Mills & Boon. I take it she found Forever in my bag, had a flip through & got the general gist of it. I had a ridiculously sheltered upbringing.