Blog post of the day: On wee ones' destruction of books. . .

I just read a blog post on the BookRiot site that I think every parent of a toddler or young child can understand. It's called "How I learned to stop worrying and let my toddler destroy his board books."

I give the blog's seemingly anarchic premise a big hear-hear!

courtesy of BookRiot.com

I've run into a parent who doesn't let her two very small kids get their hands on books, because they WILL destroy them.

I also once encountered a private daycare where they had no books—red flag!—because the children would destroy them.

As a book-lover borne of book-lovers, who always supplied me with books (some of which I destroyed), I just can't feature not giving my 2-year-old the chance to peruse and possibly rip and ingest classics like "Goodnight Moon" and "Hop on Pop" and "Are You My Mother?"

I long ago came to the conclusion that I'd rather have my kids absorb reading material while f*&^ing it up than to not read.

 Give A.J. O'Connel's post a read and see if you agree.