I'm on board with discussion, but I say that easily because so far it works extremely well with Child (ask me one day about the day the Palestinian speaker came to Child's social studies class and reading/blank scrabbling for further information thereafter), but the shame and mockery components are what are irritating me about the entire mess. Parental duty should require knowing what the child is reading; this is why God created allowances, receipts, and doors without locks. But restriction, mockery, and making it difficult to explore those concepts aren't discussion, and overreaction to concepts found in fiction aren't those things either. Current hysteria regarding the books is the problem, not the books themselves.

I don't see how any child can be overly influence by teen romance unless the parents are literally not in attendance on their lives. Equating a romance novel with a life changing religious experience isn't acceptable on any level; Twilight is not that good and this is not The Yellow King. So it comes back to my original point--leave the girls alone to explore and answer their questions as they come up. Or you know, read what they do, which is why I had to read my way through more books on reptiles than I wish I knew existed and The Watchmen, despite the fact I am not a huge fan of the graphic novel format.