We've reached another parenting milestone in this house: Zoey has been grounded for the first time in her life. This can not be a good sign.
My child loves to read. Loves books. Has A. TON. of them in her room, in her playroom, in the living room, etc. However, she has sadly taken up the sport of ripping pages from her books as of late. We've had many (many, many, endless) discussions on how horrible this behavior is. I have repaired countless editions of the Berenstain Bears and Little Critter books with scotch tape.
So yesterday afternoon I found her on my bed with her doll and my copy of 'Rattled!' by Christine Coppa (fabulous, fun-to-read book, by the way), which I had innocently left out on my nightstand. I should have been concerned, but wasn't after she called 'I'm weading to my baby, Mommy!'. Cute! So I left them to their own devices. For 20 minutes. Which was, apparently, just enough time for her to take approximately 10 pages in that book and rip them in to tiny, tiny shreds.
I was so angry when I walked in and she announced 'yook, Mommy, I wipped it!' that I hollered for Bryan to grab a box from the garage. Then I proceeded to plop my little monster on her bed and watch as I boxed up every single book she owns and sent them to the garage.
She'll get them back in two days. She is not happy about this. Neither am I, but seriously, what are you supposed to do with awful toddler behavior like this?? You can mess with lots of my things, but NOT my books.
So there.
4 comments:
That will show her! :) Good luck with getting her to not tear books, Olivia never did but Zachary seems to find it fun, too.
and it was such a sad, sad night.
Que disastre!! She sounds worse than a puppy...although, she doesn't pee on the carpet, does she? Oh dear....
I am at a loss of what to do too, B rips AND chews on his books. Mommy has fixed plenty of books for him.
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