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I think people get very upset quickly, and I dont want to be upsetting.. so lets not argue in any case, even if we do not agree.. I come from a religious background, and I support plural, open society myself. So same-sex couples are a thing, and people do that.. so they are free to do that.. as I am free to pursue a stricter social definition. There are people on both sides of this discussion, that feel so strongly a…

It's child abuse for parents to hide the existence of gay relationships from their children. You're advocating child abuse under genteel language.

The most common same-sex analogue to heterosexual marriage by far is in fact sworn brotherhood. "Gay marriage" is a modern innovation that mostly matters as an indication of legal status, but not a good descriptor of actual social relationships. Teach your kids about sworn brotherhood, and they will be very well equipped to understand the implications of gay marriage, when that (along with the non-trivial complexities of things like sexual orientation, which will be quite simply illegible and irrelevant to them prior to the biological changes of adolescence) becomes more relevant to them.

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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This is a difficult problem to solve for some kids, because there are at least two dimensions to consider: - language difficulty (which is what lexile aims to measure) - how appropriate the topic is My 5.5yo son is decoding words at about 4th grade level (based on an informal 'San Diego Quick Assessment'). But he's limited in his reading by: - his life experience and existing knowledge, which both affect comprehensio…

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Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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When I grew up, there were great children picture books in China like these: https://m.sohu.com/picture/259669024

These books have great pencil drawings and text paragraph under each picture. They are not like Japanese cartoons which have almost no text. Their drawings are also not cartoonish.

Come to the US, I couldn’t find anything similar. There’s no new publication of these kind of books in China either.

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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I wonder if the solution is _not_ naming the categories...simply ordering them by difficulty...

Yes, that is definitely a good way to represent. Instead of age group based recommendation...we simply call it Phase 3, Phase 4 etc...

The elementary school our kid goes to seems to use this rating system: https://www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/

Each grade level has 4 "levels". But each kid is on their own track. And while those books have assigned grades, the teacher assigns a pool of books for each kid based upon their actual reading level. And each week, the kids are supposed to pick 4 books from their pool to take home and read.

My daughter is in 1st grade and every week picks 4 "R/S" books (3rd grade). She has a friend that still picks books in the "D/E" category (late kindergarten/early 1st grade).

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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The About page answers this in detail: https://www.bookvine.io/about-page Overall, this appears to be a learning project for a middle schooler and his dad as well as a way for them to cover costs through affiliate links. While this might be a fun and useful way to discover new books, you should read the reviews and cross-reference your findings with parental or specialty groups like teachclean.com if you are concerne…

Yes. Thanks for sharing this. We have not even put any affiliate links. As you rightly pointed out - this is purely a learning project and at the same time a way to help others who were having the same issue as me (spending lot of time identifying good books to read).

> We have not even put any affiliate links.

Ah, I was mistaken. I noticed that the links were tagged with "ref=" codes, but I looked it up and apparently "tag=" is for referral codes on Amazon.

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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Yes, that is definitely a good way to represent. Instead of age group based recommendation...we simply call it Phase 3, Phase 4 etc...

The elementary school our kid goes to seems to use this rating system: https://www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/ Each grade level has 4 "levels". But each kid is on their own track. And while those books have assigned grades, the teacher assigns a pool of books for each kid based upon their actual reading level. And each week, the kids are supposed to pick 4 books from their pool to take home and read. My daugh…

Thanks for sharing it. Will definitely check it out.

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This is a great list, though our 6 year old has brought about half of the age appropriate stuff home from the school library already. Need to look at the other half. :-)

Love it. School and county/city libraries are great under utilized resources. That is one of the reason we put the library links directly as well. During COVID my son used a ton of the ebook lending from our local County library.

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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When I grew up, there were great children picture books in China like these: https://m.sohu.com/picture/259669024 These books have great pencil drawings and text paragraph under each picture. They are not like Japanese cartoons which have almost no text. Their drawings are also not cartoonish. Come to the US, I couldn’t find anything similar. There’s no new publication of these kind of books in China either.

They look wonderful. There should be digitization efforts to preserve some of these.

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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FYI: Just noticed a small mistake. "The Call of the Wild" attributed to George Orwell when it should be Jack London.

Also, my kid is really enjoying the Dragon Masters series right now, seems good for the younger readers just getting interested in chapter books.

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