Unfortunately, in this story the adults are rather dumb and easily tricked. He considers them dumb and easily tricked. Greg has a abysmal view of adults in general. This is the great friendship in the book, and I actually found it truly sad to read. On one occasion, he convinces Rowley to ride a big wheel down a hill repeatedly while Greg throws a football at his head to try to knock him off. He makes fun of Rowley’s simpler tastes in video games and humor. He beats up Rowley using all the same moves his own brother used to beat him up. Greg has a rather sweet, slightly immature best friend, Rowley, whom he manipulates and bullies. When Christmas comes, he sulks about not getting the particularly violent video game he wants and is ungrateful for all his other presents. The more violent the game, the cooler for Greg. He describes car-racing as too babyish, and resents his friend’s contentment with such boring games. Greg lives for his video games, and he prefers violent ones. On another occasion, Greg deceives his friend’s parents by sneaking in a forbidden violent video game in the case of an educational one. Then he soaks himself in a sprinkler so it looks like he’s been running around working up a sweat, thereby deceiving his dad. For example, when his dad tells him to go play outside, Greg goes to a friend’s house and plays video games. He’s not just any liar: he’s a skilled, sneaky one. He lies to his parents, his teachers, his friends, and his peers. I’ll break that down with details for you. Greg Heffley, is a lying video game addict who manipulates his friends, disrespects his parents, and doesn’t show personal growth to speak of in the story. Do yourself and your kid a giant favor and skip the Dairy of the Wimpy Kid book series. It's normal for them to try on the attitudes and behaviors of the people and characters they see. Elementary and middle school kids are trying to find themselves. IF your kids are older this book might be more appropriate, however by that point I believe the reading level would be far too low. To be honest, Bart Simpson would be a better role model. He sees what Greg sees and has thereby learned being funny and cool means acting like a cocky, self-absorbed, jerk. Developmentally, my son takes the text at face value. Even though Greg's attitude causes him many problems, Greg doesn't see himself as the issue and my son is too young to understand that very important nuance. I realized, in the book series, Greg is his own hero. My son was absolutely a carbon copy of Greg.
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However, after I finally sat down to watch the movie with my son the painful truth become undeniable.
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Thinking this was a stage or some sort of pandemic-related issue, I continued to try to address the attitude without even thinking to blame this book series he has been constantly reading, and re-reading. Flashforward a year or so and we have a 7-year-old with the bad attitude of a full-blown sitcom teenager. Reading a couple of chapters here and there I intentionally pointed out to my son that the main character, Greg, was rude, a bad friend, and not to be copied, but since there weren't any adult themes and social skills have always been a strength for my kid, I never worried too much about it. Excited to support his reading habits we kept buying him books from the series without thought or research. My 6 year old picked up reading quickly and independently got into the Wimpy Kid series.
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