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Josiegirl 03:25 AM 02-22-2019
In all of his 21 mo toddler misadventures, tearing apart books has become one of his most recent challenges. 
I was thinking of putting all the older kid books up but he's doing it to all the books we have. 
How do you keep your books safe from mistreatment? The other kids love books and for the most past, treat them right.
I was thinking of putting all the older kid books up but he's doing it to all the books we have. How do you keep your books safe from mistreatment? The other kids love books and for the most past, treat them right.
Ac114 04:03 AM 02-22-2019
Originally Posted by Josiegirl:
In all of his 21 mo toddler misadventures, tearing apart books has become one of his most recent challenges. I was thinking of putting all the older kid books up but he's doing it to all the books we have.
How do you keep your books safe from mistreatment? The other kids love books and for the most past, treat them right.
Just because of the ages that I have in care right now and the fact that most of them want to tear the books up, I have had to remove them from the room altogether. I saved a few for circle time or one of the older children for nap time but this was my only solution after months of ripped up books. 😩In all of his 21 mo toddler misadventures, tearing apart books has become one of his most recent challenges.
I was thinking of putting all the older kid books up but he's doing it to all the books we have. How do you keep your books safe from mistreatment? The other kids love books and for the most past, treat them right.
ColorfulSunburst 04:49 AM 02-22-2019
All books are reachable here for all my kids.
Just the first word that babies start using here is "gentle".
If a book gets ripped I repair it in front of kids and tell them that books are our friends and we should be gentle with them. The book right now gets bo-bo and needs a book's bandage.
Just the first word that babies start using here is "gentle".
If a book gets ripped I repair it in front of kids and tell them that books are our friends and we should be gentle with them. The book right now gets bo-bo and needs a book's bandage.
DaveA 05:10 AM 02-22-2019
At 21 months he can know how to not damage them. I wouldn't allow him to have the books for a while. Then make him use board books with me after that for a bit.
CountryRoads 05:21 AM 02-22-2019
I had to put ours in a separate room because of the same issue. Even board books would get ruined. At storytime, we pick out some books, read them, and they get put away.
storybookending 05:41 AM 02-22-2019
I would for sure remove the books from him until he can handle himself with them. My youngest is 17 months and he is pretty good by now sometimes I will just catch him bending them while carrying them and I recorrect. When I have book eaters the board books stay on the lower two shelves and the paper books on the higher two.. kids are an average of 3 before they can reach the top shelves and can always ask if they want one they can’t reach.