![]() ![]() ![]() I have learned my lesson about not previewing a series like this for my kids. Now I have to back track with my kids about respect, materialism, kindness, and appropriate language and fight against the image of cool tweeny Nikki that my daughter latched on to. I don't think 3rd, 4th graders are sophisticated enough to tell the difference. I know the purpose of a diary can be to vent and express negative emotions with words you would not necessarily use out loud. Then I looked deeper and no more of those books are coming into our house. Nikki Maxwell, Queen of the Dorks, is back in the 12th instalment of the best-selling series The New York Times best-selling series Dork Diaries follows Nikki Maxwell as she chronicles her life - her move to a new school, her battles with queen bee MacKenzie and her zany adventures with her BFFs, Chloe and Zoey, by her side. She went to her bookcase and grabbed the first Dork Diaries book and that was literally the first line in the book, the narrator calling her mother brain dead. I stopped her in her tracks and asked her why she thought it was ok to talk to me like that. Finally one day she got mad at me and told me I was BRAIN DEAD. ![]() Then I noticed my daughter and her younger brother using so much more rude language, talking back, and then my daughter got in trouble at school for name-calling with friends. I wasn't paying close enough attention to the content but I didn't have a good feeling about them. My daughter LOVED these books and gobbled them up over a couple of months, reading and re-reading them. My 8 year old discovered this series through a library recommendation bundle, probably because I mentioned she likes graphic novels and Babysitters Club. ![]()
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