AIBU to refuse to read certain books to my DD?

[ElleDubloo]

DD (aged almost 3) wants me to read Frozen (the book of the film) multiple times every day, and also to sing the Frozen Fever book to the tune of Let It Go (it's horrendous). I've done this patiently for several weeks now. But I'm being driven crazy and starting to lose my self-respect. AIBU to just say no? Or am I being a bad parent, as parenting toddlers is largely about doing boring things to make DC happy...?

There are a few other really badly written books that she loves. AIBU to subtly get rid of them and repopulate the bookshelves with more wholesome classics?

I have been known to 'lose' books that I think are dire.
But not a favourite.

Can you wean her off by saying once a day only?

You need to learn to read books first before giving them to her!

They don't need to be wholesome classics, just bearable. e.g. Julia Donaldson, Jez Aldborough, or whatever.

Books of films tend to be dire, so don't buy any more of them!

I hide the books that I'm fed up of reading and tell my DS that his cousins have borrowed them. He quite happily accepts this lie

I feel your pain... DS wants me to read Scarface Claw every night at bedtime, again and again. I can recite it in my sleep now. I want to burn that book!

I have 'misplaced' dreadful books of films and other princess crap about Minnie Mouse brushing her hair etc. that kind relatives have given DD over the years. Straight into the recycling bin...

I banned all Barney the frigging dinosaur media books tapes videos dd 2 was obsessed I couldn't cope I feel for the parents who has kids into frozen lose it for a few days take her for a new book over the weekend

yanbu
i still remember postman pats secret
and ds is in his 20's now

Buy a storage books and stack the books - read the one on the top then put it back at the bottom, repeat.

Make this your new rule and you can make anything sound exciting to a 3 year old... come on we have to read allll these other books if we want frozen again!

Works with my DS x

Go to the library, that way she can pick new ones weekly?

We have a weekly book box now, it has about 8 books in that I change when I can't take now more haha as my 6 year old is obsessed with books. I used one of my shoe boxes and wrapped it in some spare wrapping paper. I do it with films as well can't wait for the weekend goodbye moana and sing

Good idea AreWeThereYet000

What was his secret MrShadows? Cross-dressing? Drug addiction?

You should try the Rosie and Jim story book, I swear that Old John was on crack when he wrote that one

YANBU.

I arranged for the Tickle Book to mysteriously "go missing" when I just couldn't any more. Noisy Zoo is in danger of going the same way.

Go The Fuck To Sleep also took a long walk off a short bridge when DS spotted it and insisted on its being read several times in a row.

I couldn't abide Topsy and Tim

If a book does not have the author's name on the front I refuse to read it to my DC. If the person who wrote it does not want to take responsibility then I am not sure it is worth reading. This happens with spin off books from TV programmes.

stripeyboys

With books based on films/TV programmes, they were usually written by a large group of people, not just one person.

RedRedRose You can send it to me if you like, my DD is obsessed with the idea of Scarface Claw from 'Scattercat', we don't have the book just about him. She sees all kinds of animals and says 'look bit like yarface caw!'.

Dopey Dinosaur Lost in the Fog - had to read it to my younger DS -
Every. Night. For. MONTHS!!!

(DS is now 30 but I have never forgotten).

Only buy books YOU like to read. Use the library for all the books that you can't abide. They have to go back! 😂

Hide them, or just park her in front of the tv and let her watch the movie on her own.

My DD2 loved The Lion King II and luckily for me there was no book or merchandise apart from the original Lion King stuff. We bought a Simba glove puppet and that was it.

When I say she loved that movie I am understating it enormously. She spend a year and a half roaring on Pride Rock and singing the songs. One day when I was sitting in the bleachers while she had a skating lesson I saw her out on the ice waiting for her turn to do a manouver with the teacher, roaring. The little boy waiting beside her was giving her a funny look.

I read several Beatrix Potter stories to the point where I actually knew them off by heart. Kids love repetition. I suspect it is good for them.

I don't actually mind the Frozen book too much - at least it tells a good story. But the Frozen Fever book is so badly written, and all it teaches DD is that she can't wait for her birthday so she can get lots of presents, and that she likes Anna's green dress.

I think poor DD would really be heartbroken if they went missing though... I just need to try and distract her with other books.

I love the Gruffalo books and others by the same author - great sense of adventure, humour, and rhythm.

5foot I once found some of the original 1950s (I think) Topsy and Tim in a secondhand bookshop, they were lovely? Really annoyed I didn't buy them all.

I was a terrible meany and would refuse to read badly-written stuff after a while, that's what her father's there for, to read that shit . Though these days it's Enid Blyton...

That should be lovely! Not lovely?

The Beatrix Potter books are awesome. Great pictures. Some of the storylines are gruesome - squirrel Nutkin having his tail bitten off by an owl, a little kitten being kidnapped and baked in a cake - that's the kind of thing I want to be reading to DD.

RiverTam - great idea letting OH read the worst books. I actually got out of doing bedtimes for a while by telling DD that Daddy loves reading the mermaid sticker book (she wanted to read that every bedtime for a few weeks and IT DOESNT EVEN HAVE WORDS)