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AIBU?

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To hide DD's favourite book

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Geekster · 14/03/2013 10:31

We have already read it at least ten times this morning. She's got plenty of others. It will appear again in an hour or so. It's one of the ones we got free via the Health Visitor.

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mummymeister · 14/03/2013 10:36

hmm - hide this one she will fixate on another. they just like the familiar. i must have read billy the bloody bus 10 times a day for years as it was a favourite of each child. now they are all teenagers i sometimes just look at it like mrs saddo to remind myself that they were once lovely and little.

hellhasnofurylikeahungrywoman · 14/03/2013 10:36

Hide it!

My DS is now 21 when he was 4 his favourite book was Little Rabbit Foo Foo. I read that book at least once a day, every day, for a year. I am still bloody word perfect. Hide it for your own sanity.

TheSeniorWrangler · 14/03/2013 10:37

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Startail · 14/03/2013 10:41

Hide it.
Our library only had about 10 toddler books, my younger sister was fixated with two of them. I was old enough to be sick of them too!

My DDs weren't too bad, and we have a very untidy house. We often genuinely couldn't find a particular book.

Flobbadobs · 14/03/2013 10:45

Only hide it if you're prepared for a full on bedtime melt down. I hid DD's favourite book which had been read every night for 2 weeks and she totally lost it. I ended up 'finding' it and reading the bloody thing twice in one night as I felt so guilty!
Don't blame you though, the same book all the time drives me potty..

Kyrptonite · 14/03/2013 10:46

I have hidden 6 Charlie and Lola books today. The bastarding things do my head in!

freddiefrog · 14/03/2013 10:50

God no, hide it.

I still have Guess How Much I Love You going round and round on a loop after years of reading it every bloody bedtime

We redecorated her room and it accidentally got put in the pile of books to donate to the school library. It still haunts me as now comes home almost weekly as she borrows it from school.

eosmum · 14/03/2013 10:53

I had to read the smartest giant in town every night for over a year, and sing the song in it. Then DS went in to hospital and I had to read it and sing it in front of the whole ward many times as it was the only thing that would calm him down.

Theas18 · 14/03/2013 10:58

My eldest is 19 and I STILL have " in the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf" in my head.

Get some hairy Mclairy books. THey are THE best to read out loud. You won't mind so much when it's quality writing .

TwelveLeggedWalk · 14/03/2013 11:01

I have hidden What the Ladybird Heard for a couple of days respite. It's a great book but DD will happily read it 5 times in a row.

I am beginning to understand why my mother taught me to read independently as soon as she could!

midastouch · 14/03/2013 12:07

I have tried hiding a book i have been readign my DS for the past 6 months before bed, he always finds it! Atleast i can read it in my sleep though

BeaWheesht · 14/03/2013 12:09

Yanbu. If I have to read 'there was an old lady who lived all by herself, with a table and chairs and a jug on the shelf...' One more time I may lose my mind!

Lueji · 14/03/2013 12:10

It's fulfilling a need for her, so don't hide it. :)

It's the DM, but still:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359044/The-old-story-How-children-repeat-reading-book-increase-vocabulary.html

BeaWheesht · 14/03/2013 12:11

Ps I am 31 and hve a 6 year old named after the main character in my favourite book as a child that I made my parents read millions of times...

Xiaoxiong · 14/03/2013 12:17

Burn hide it.

Bloody Goodnight Moon. DS wants it read to him every 20 minutes and when he gets excited he throws it over his shoulder instead of turning the pages and then gets upset because we haven't finished it.

"In a great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon and a picture of the cow who jumped over the moon..."

It doesn't even make sense, it's like an ugly bunny filled green acid trip

Snoopingforsoup · 14/03/2013 12:19

Don't hide the book. Just read her some others stories.

SolomanDaisy · 14/03/2013 12:24

There's no point hiding the book, they just recite the story anyway and make you join in.

midastouch · 14/03/2013 12:27

How about taking her to book shop or library to choose another one? Library could be good because they have to take it back and swap it!

gnushoes · 14/03/2013 12:36

Just make sure the books she obsesses about are ones which are good to read. I still have nightmares about one that rhymed bees and geese. Others I can still recite off by heart years later... literally, start to finish.

41notTrendy · 14/03/2013 12:37

Hide it. Busy bloody Airport. We resorted to singing it just to break the monotony.

MTBMummy · 14/03/2013 12:38

DD is 3 and has a few books that she's obsessed with - so I now ask her to "read" (recite) them to me - which she happily does

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Geekster · 14/03/2013 12:41

It's not even a good book it's called What a busy baby. DD is just one and she prefers turning the pages over just as much as reading it. We've got one of the Hairy Maclary ones might have to surreptitiously place it on her bookcase shelf. Bet I'd still get What a busy baby though!

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