Our Kid Has a Precious Relationship to Reading. My Husband’s Approach Threatens to Squash It.

Care and Feeding I’m not sure how to feel about this. July 27, 20266:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Pressmaster/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, Our 8-year-old son is a voracious reader and is interested in everything from Dav Pilkey’s graphic novels to the Horrible Histories series (UK), etc. But I’ve been wondering: How should I feel about directing my child’s reading? My husband is a bit more conscious about what our son is reading at a given time and tries to steer him toward better quality fiction (the Percy Jackson series and s