My kid got this book about money for Christmas, which is generally good and interesting, but I look at all these books through the lens of "what message are they spreading?"
Example - The Inflation section of the book starts off... Inflation is normal and it isn't bad...
When I read ahead, I found the the Bitcoin section of the book. They lump Bitcoin & crypto together, but call out Bitcoin specifically with this blurb:
https://m.stacker.news/15056
We have lots of Bitcoin conversations around our house, but I've been planting some extra seeds around mining in Africa, green energy mining, grid support, etc, to help fight this FUD.
(sidenote, I find that A LOT of children's books revolve around climate change fear. This is just making kids neurotic about the environment, which maybe is the goal.)
Or gender identity.. pick one
Yup, that’s just so fear-mongery of that publisher. I’m glad you’re letting them hear the Keynesian side too though. I let my kids read every perspective and teach them to think critically. We watch Tuttle Twins AND Wild Kratts. The truth is just too compelling.
Totally, that's why we have to be choosy about our children's books. Some people have this attitude that if it's not online and it's a hard copy paper book it's fine because any books are good for kids to get into. But they can still be heavy propaganda, just like anything else.
And, yes, they are scaring the shit out of the poor kids. They are also trying to get at the parents through the kids. Propagandizing the kids into thinking that the parents are bigoted, lots of labels with "ist" on the end but mainly that their parents are stupid and need to be educated.