Appropriate for Mature teens?

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I think it is never too early to learn how life can hit at you or someone close. So once you're at a age where you can be held accountable for your actions and you can read, i think this book will do a great deal of benefit helping you on how to react and maneuver when you or someone close is going through something similar.
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Nowadays, almost everybody knows everything, and people also mature differently. Right now, I don't even know what or who a mature teen is because even your five year old sibling knows as much as you do or more. So yes mature teens can handle the book. It is great for them,(me being one of them) and I think Kalayla will inspire them.
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I think an ideal situation would be for the mature teens to read the book if the parents are confident that they can handle the content and then discuss it with them. That would be the most profitable for them.
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I believe mature teens should read this book, it will give them insight and perspective on hard-hitting topics raised in the book, thereby helping them with awareness and how to handle them.
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I think mature teens can not only relate to the raised issues but also benefit from the courage, resilience, and compassion portrayed in the book.
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Of course. I hope they can learn some lessons from the book too.
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Yes, mature teens can handle this. It is better for them to read and gain knowledge they face similar situation they would avoid making mistakes. The topics in Kalayla are great and would be a really great book for mature teens.
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I agree with others that teens can handle the content in this book. Reading this is a great way to open discussions with them about mature subject matter and offer opportunities to hear their opinions and experiences.
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MeganDJ wrote: 19 Sep 2020, 00:44 I think the worst things that we as an adult can do is limit a teenagers perspective. It is through these years that they truly start to learn about life in all its aspects, and I believe it is better to be prepared and exposed to such situations than to not be. I think teenagers would benefit greatly from reading this novel.
I absolutely agree. As Wayne Dyer once quoted,There is one grand lie; that we are limited. The only limits you have are the limits we believe. Plus, children are exposed to a lot more things than what we'll ever know.
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I think being overprotective makes teens unready for the challenges that they might encounter in future. I believe mature teens can read this story. it might even be a great conversation starter for parents to indirectly discuss difficult issues and perhaps help them adumbrate what they would do if these sitautions occur in their own lives.
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The way I look at it is, teenagers probably know a lot more than we give them credit for. With the internet being as big and popular as it is, I'm sure they have come across more mature subjects than what is in this book. With that in mind, I think teenagers can read this just fine.
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Lucille27 wrote: 18 Sep 2020, 14:28 I think mature teenagers understand these situations very well. Also, hiding them from these public is something that I believe, most of the times, works just the other way around. What I mean is that they will face different situations in real life and they have to be prepared. Explaining and trying to make others understand is always better than hiding.
Exactly!
Realise that about a hundred years ago, and even today in some parts of the world, 'teenagers' were and are as mature and responsible , as adults and do handle what one might term 'mature' issues.

It all depends on how you treat your teenagers. If you treat them like adults then they will behave maturely- like adults should- and if not, then the opposite is true.

Better to expose them to these issues so there can be frank discussions within the home, and questions they might have can be answered, rather than them having to go to their equally clueless friends for advice when later on they have to handle issues for which they haven't been prepared.
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I think that mature teen can handle the aspects highlighted in book. Teens should be exposed to such topics to learn from the hardship of others. I myself am a teen by the way.
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I definitely think that this book is for mature teens. Even though there are some things that might trigger people of this age, it is just as likely that it can trigger a twenty-year-old or even an eight-year-old. Besides, without a doubt, the author handles all the themes of marital sexual assault, estrangement, and violence very well but make sure to use to artistically convert that what goes on in this book should not be the norm. I agree with you that the character development was well appreciated. I found myself growing to forgive even the worst of the characters because they did little things that showed that they were sorry.
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Of course. I think teenagers should not be shielded from the real world and its troubles, this is how they can grow and become better adults.
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