'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' Author Shares His Parenting Advice in Age of AI - Business Insider
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'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' author Jeff Kinney shares his parenting advice — and what he'd do differently.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeff Kinney, the 55-year-old author of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, who lives in Plainville, Massachusetts. It has been edited for length and clarity. When I wrote "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," I worked on it for eight or nine years without thinking I was writing a book for kids. I thought I was writing a book for grown-ups that would feel like "The Wonder Years" or "A Christmas Story" — looking back on childhood through the lens of an adult. The first thing that surprised me was that my publisher said I'd actually written a children's series; it caused a lot of cognitive dissonance. But what also surprised me was that kids understood the irony in the books. They understand that Greg is an unreliable narrator; they seem to get the joke. After writing the series, and after raising two kids of my own — ages 21 and 23 — I've learned a few things about kids. Here's my best advice about getting kids to read, screen time, and more — plus a few things I'd go back and change if I could.1.
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