How would it affect a child to read inappropriate books “adult books”?

Learning is normal for every living creature, even more so for humans. But what we learn is far more important than learning itself. Some of the things we learn are not beneficial to our lives thus one needs to really look at what they consume using their brain. Matilda a character out of the novel “Matilda” by Roald Dahl was exposed to adult material content at the early age of about four years. A question then arises as to when some things are to be learned?

Some content is not appropriate for some ages and thus age restrictions are put in place so as not to give in appropriate information. Now how then does inappropriate material affect the child? For example a child at the age of five has a very active and creative imagination. This is seen in some children who create imaginary friends. So by reading a book that has a lot of monsters like Harry Potter for example may stimulate nightmares. The most feared of all in adult content is the dreaded pornography. Children exposed to this are affected negatively for not only do they want to actually do what they see or read about, but they get addicted to it. Not good because it will affect them for the rest of their lives.

A child may be affected differently depending on the content of what is being read. Not all the effects are bad, a book out of science may inspire the child to love science whilst a book from fictional stories like Cinderella might make the child to become a princess one day, the girl child in this case. This is good for it is at the child’s level of development.

 A child like Matilda may go on to become a great author because she understands literature and the English language due to her reading. At her age she was able to write poems, this is also due to all that reading she did because even geniuses also need to hone their skills.

The overarching principle in this whole discussion is learning, especially for the child because children learn what they see read, hear and more. Monkey see monkey do! In this case Monkey reads monkey does!