It's not like classics have to be hard to understand - there's loads of classic kids books, for instance, plus comedies and so forth as well.

What kind of classics? Nursery rhymes and fairy tales and stuff? I'd say yes, but I'm not aware of anyone ever trying to restrict kids from that stuff since they're, well, classics. If you're referring to more complicated stuff like novels, then no.

>>109065
The true classics.

I don't think the question is whether you should show them the classics, because you absolutely should, but rather which to choose and how to present them. Dostoevsky is off the table, but I do believe you can give preteens something more complicated than an old fable and help them understand it.
Back when I was fourteen, I read Steppenwolf and Demian, and the words went into one ear and out the other. Only thing I could tell you about them is that some god called Abraxas was mentioned a bunch of times. I remember they had some coming of age stuff but didn't have any way to appreciate them. In the case of my lil' bro though (also fourteen), with the help of online stuff he can watch Breaking Bad and tell me about all the cool things it has, as they stupid as they may be sometimes video essays still help him better appreciate that stuff and I honestly think that's pretty cool. He can grasp its themes down to its color palette and will remember it for a long time, whereas I didn't, and will be able to do the same for whatever other great series he decides to look at. School is supposed to achieve the same, but everyone already knows it fails miserably at it, the internet makes for an interestesting alternative.

Meanwhile, neither of us cares about what we watched on Discovery Kids, that stuff was just trash.

>>109068
In the show, they put on King Lear because that's what got the troupe leader into theater and made a bunch of grade schoolers cry so then they rewrote Romeo and Juliet to remove the tragedy and protected the fragile minds of today's youth.

So not "classic children's entertainment" but classic works of whatever medium you're trying to get them interested in.

>>109070
I think that there's potentially some value in showing kids something that's way above and may bore them in the sense that it may stick a bit with them and lead to better appreciation when they're older. On the other hand I'm not sure if it'd just turn them off of those classics so that they don't even try to revisit them when they're older.

How about giving the kids a pool of /qa/-approved classics and let them pick the ones they want to read?

I'm going to show my kids the /qa/-unapproved classics.

gonna print a bunch of kimosugi eromanga and give it out to children as they leave school

>>109080
They're just going to read the sparknotes on it anyways.

If you show kids too many classics they'll become jaded towards modern stuff

It's said that postmodernism is a rejection of the modernist tropes. But if someone did not grow up as modernism was getting tired, then would they accept modernism and the things before it as old and tired?

I think not. Beyond the changes in attention span and the cultural times, Kids just like what is popular and gets them attention of other people. If their friends or idols are all listening to Brahms then, along with the assumption that there is an attentionspan to listen to all that, they will enjoy Brahms.

>>109079
Maybe, it'd have to be at least somewhat understandable so they may gain a foothold, but in any case going back to old stuff is more complicated in this day and age where our media horizon keeps expanding at the rate of the universe.
>>109160
I don't think kids are that driven by what's popular among adults. Young'uns doing their own thing and adults getting pissed at them because of it is itself an undead trope. As for Brahms, it's more complicated, you have to be a fairly hardcore postmodernist to reject good music that doesn't convey any particular ideology. We live in the times of postmodernism, but most people are not postmodern in the way artists and academics are, and are often able to enjoy things without trying to deconstruct them to the bone.

>>109174
i think kids are very driven by what people with power think. So are adults, but adults instead have to worry about not dying because the country says they're useless

who even defines what a classic is, just let them have access to all old stuff