Boo the Bookworm

If anyone of you know my daughter well, you would know how much she likes reading. She loves to read! She went through a naughty spell a couple months back where she was riping up her books, but she has learned to treat her books nice, or she gets them taken away. She likes to read before she goes to bed; really I think this is just a ploy to get to stay up later. She usually meanders into the hallway and reads with the hall light and eventually falls asleep on the floor. We've had problems finding proper lighting for her bedside. While at Wally-world this weekend, we found a lamp that clips to her headboard that is really easy for 2-year old fingers to turn on, and she is just as happy as a clam now. Tonight she lined up all her dollies and was reading them to sleep. The only problem, as it seems, her dollies were alseep but she was not. After an hour and some stern talking to, she went to bed a little unhappy that I had turned off her light. This might be a little bit of a fight mixed with a good way to get her to loving reading.

*Since I wrote this, last week, she has ripped up 3 books and has gotten them taken away again. Anyone know how to get a child to stop ripping up books??