I heard a new statement get expressed from BW this afternoon:
NO READING BOOKS IN THE BATHROOM!
Meanwhile, I am hearing this and wondering if she’s ever heard of Reader’s Digest?
Back in the day I grew up with a magazine rack right next to the potty and if I visited friends houses they had different stuff to read next to their potty! I have done some best reading whilst on the throne.
I have read women’s magazines, men’s magazines (for the articles) and so much other stuff from National Geographic that I would never have learned otherwise. And of course: Readers' Digest
And now I learn that this is not acceptable in our house? This is news to me.
I give credit to my love of reading due in part to the fact there’s nothing else to do in there and the task at hand doesn’t require a big skillset other than um - aiming.
I think it’s completely normal to read while you’re in there. It’s the equivalent of reading the cereal box at the kitchen table but now you’re at the other end of the cycle.
In a way I kind of get it. This new rule isn’t necessarily aimed at me but at the child.
Personally I think it’s great that she’s such a voracious reader that she has the foresight to realize that she’s going to be in there a while so she might was well bring a book to keep her entertained.
I think the problem is the aftermath of the child reading there. Hardcover books get left on the floor where they could get wet and stepped on and otherwise damaged. Books and bathrooms aren’t really meant to be. I’ve seen magazines mostly in the reading rooms I have been to so maybe the rule is just about books?
I later was picking up the house while she was getting ready for bed and there it was: the wet book on the middle of the floor. But I can’t be mad at her because she is reading by choice. I can pick up books off the bathroom floor all day if she reads them while she’s in there.
Besides, it was a good pick: Little Kids - Big Dreams: David Attenborough
I don’t think I completely agree with the no books whilst in the potty rule
Besides- wait ‘til the child figures out she can bring her tablet in there.
We won’t see her for days.
Keep Reading,
TH and Co.