I'll be honest- I haven't read all of the Fred stories. From what I understand though, there are a few references to characters getting drunk and something about funny white powder... stuff that my kids pretty much ignore. The stories that go along with the problems are silly and have all kinds of strange things happening. My kids don't watch the Simpsons tv show, but I used to, and I don't think there is anything in LOF that is worse.

Thanks, Lorel!

After reading so much about these books, I tried to get them at the library and couldn't, so I ordered a few. They came in two days and arrived yesterday. I haven't read them yet because DS ran off with them and one had to be ripped from his hands last night to make him go to bed!

This is my method of "hothousing" . . . . I read about cool resources online and if I read enough about them, I order them and say something like "you may like this" and that's it. I got some Zaccaro books for the same reason and one DS quotes from them regularly (he loves the 10 mistakes made in math or science . . . or something like that title). From what I've read, the LOF humor would appeal greatly to both by DSs and hopefully they'll ignore any references to white powder!!

Thanks to bianc and czechdrum who I think were my sources of recommendation. I would never have known about such things if not for the boards.

LOL. If this is hothousing then I am in big trouble I do exactly the same thing.

We have the first LOF book and I think it's great. It's not a complete curriculum and I would never use it as such but it's fun and engaging. We did a few chapters and then we stopped but it may be time to try it again since DS5 just got into math story books and that's all he wants to read right now.