My Mom would not buy me comic books when I was young. My older brother had tons of them in boxes but I never really read them or became interested. Instead Mom would buy me books and I really got into WWII at a very young age because of my Dad and Uncle flying and fighting in that war, so she enrolled me in the Military Book Club. That was when I started to learn about, and love, history.
So then you not only didn’t miss anything from the simple comic book world but you also enhanced your life and enriched it with new knowledge through reading.
Many are still fighting with each other over whether or not a certain character should have been killed off in a comic series and no longer speaking to a former friend who disagreed. Absurd.
Brother? My parents had the same line of thinking. Around age 10, I started reading some of Dad's AFSC history books. I'm quite sure I didn't 'get' everything first time around, but I certainly found history a lot more fascinating than fiction.
Parental negligence is wasting years of a child’s upbringing on impractical interests like sports, fiction and even foreign languages such as French or German.
It is the parent saying I do not respect my child’s valuable time.