To ask ds to choose a different book as I will GO MAD if I have to read another blardy Thomas related story?

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I just can't bear them and of course they are ds's favourite thing. They aren't even that nice, just a load of male egos competing and being unkind to each other plus they are too long and, and, I could go on.

I will read a few each day but always get to the point where I say, "can we read something else, something that isn't a train book, how about x, y and z?" I know I shouldn't dictate his reading choices but I am getting to the point where I just can't bear them!

AIBU?

YABU

Not at all - I HATE BLOODY THOMAS. So tediously written it's untrue. We have managed to steer our son towards Fireman Sam - much more fun...we all love Naughty Norman....

YANBU in the case of Thomas books.

I hide them.

yanbu

I despise thomas books

I hid them as well.

I read the Thomas stories to ds so many times he could recite them to us

(and I bought a Thomas story tape in the end )

Can't you strategically 'lose' them? That's what I do with the ones I can't stand (usually adaptations of BBC series - Bob the Builder or Teletubbies ones are particularly dreadful). Oh dear! It seems to have totally disappeared! Let's read Slinky Malinki instead darling.

YANBU.

And Bob the flipping Builder. We have billions of books, so when Thomas or Bob come out I just tell them to choose something else. If they say that they really want it, then I read it. But most of the time they are happy to choose another one.

When there are so many fabtastic books out there, I think it's a pain to read rubbish ones unless they are really really in love with them.

If I could find a way of losing 15 or so books, believe me, I would!!

Dh keeps buying the little £2.50 stories even though I ask him not to as it's me that has to read them over and over again. When ds gets a new one he actually sleeps with it for a few days. He also things we are naming this baby after Thomas characters....

Used to feel this way about Thomas, (and Not Now Bernard, ds loved that book when he was younger) but now ds is grown and dd loves Charlie and Lola. And lo, I can now see the attraction of Thomas.
I fecking hate Charlie and Lola!!

ds1 is obsessed with the Mr Men. God help me.

And he can sit for (literally) hours listening to blimming Thomas.

Happily, he loves Dr Seuss, Julia Donaldson and poetry too.

I can't bear a lot of the Thomas books either. Its true, they are all mean. dd is facsinated (sp) by their grumpy train faces though.
They are very long too.

I have a few shorter ones with flaps that are ok.

The worst are the old ones. I have some that are about 17 yrs old and they are dullsville.

I had two years of reading "The Train Book" every night. Now it's "Cut away Star Wars Ships Episode 1". And that's just ds1. Ds 2 obsessed with "The Digger Book" .

I would love to be reading stories, but no, they just want to read about vehicles, real or imaginary.

If you want to know which train was the fasted steam engine, who invented the "Puffing Billy" or who designed the Flying Scotsman or more currently what propels a Sith Infilatrator then I know it all. Would much rather read Thomas the Tank!

I can't bear a lot of the Thomas books either. Its true, they are all mean. dd is facsinated (sp) by their grumpy train faces though.
They are very long too.

I have a few shorter ones with flaps that are ok.

The worst are the old ones. I have some that are about 17 yrs old and they are dullsville.

'BOTHER, puffed Gordon' [wistful]

thomas is more interesting than our libary books ds chooses factual books about trai ns and planes. DD pleads to have thomas lol

YANBU

We are on a Mr Men kick. This I wouldn't mind so much as we have the entire collection - at least there's variety...

... except he wants the same fecking three EVERY.SINGLE.TIME

I tell ya... Mr Bump is going to have a far worse accident in the very near future.

Be grateful, somewhere along the line we got into the routine of reading DS TWO books before bed which was fine when it was a couple of hard books with only three words on each page. Now it's two Thomas the tank books, EVERY night and DS always insists on two and now even knows if you are skipping bits

It does gut me that I find bedtime stories a chore though

Why couldn't he stick to slinky malinky and Each peach pear plum???

Have any of you lot imprisoned by Thomas got the Little Red Train books by Benedict Blathwayt? The fulfill your child's train needs while not making you want to stab yourself repeatedly.

My neighbour 'kindly' bought round about 15 thomas books over as his LO had "grown-out of them"
We tried to sneak them away upstairs but my DS1 spotted them straight away - they are terrible. Over the course of the last few months I have managed to whittle them down to about 5 left.......

never heard of the Litle Red Train - you wait now you've said that those books will be harder to find than a free range chicken

God, Thomas must be bad. I'm trying to teach dd that Hairy Maclary is a frisbee as I cannot bear reading it.

YANBU. I am always trying to persuade DS to choose another book. He always manages to pick out something really long and dull that has been dumped on us by my mum or SIL (small childrens books these days are generally much more interesting than the ones I had when I was little I have discovered!). If there are lots of words (as in a couple of paragraphs on each page) I just make up a shortened version. He would never have the patience to stay on a page for so long. He is only 3 though so I can get away with it for a bit longer! He has so many new and fun to read books but he always goes for the long old ones!

The Little Red Train is good. The pictures are fab so you can talk about those too.