I drop off my girls at school and am driving home. We happen to drive by the library. My son says, “Me go to library.”
“Not now,” I reply. ”It’s not open yet.”
Well, he proceeds to kick and scream because we can’t go to the library.
“Me want books,” he says.
“I know, baby, but we’ll have to go some other time.”
“No!” he screams and kicks some more.
When we used to go to the library, my son would be happy with only a few books. Now, he pulls book after book off the shelves and he ends up getting close to a dozen (and that’s just him).
I try to limit our library visits to just once a week because my husband can’t take the library books that lie around our house in piles and frequently across the floor.
My children play a game where they check out library books. The other day they were selling library books to each other complete with play money–bartering in effect.
It’s not just my son who has a problem. He got it from me.
Last weekend, I was putting books on hold and suddenly the computer comes back at me and says, “Error. Please check your account at the information desk.”
Well, I thought. I’ll just use my other daughter’s account.
Same message on her account.
So on Monday I ask the librarian. She kindly informs me that there is a 20-item limit on each account for the number of holds placed.
I quietly think to myself, Maybe it’s time my son opens an account.
Yep, I’m a monster too.
Thank you for this very funny post. I love it when people love books but I’ve never heard of anyone with this predicament. I did once about 30 years ago ship about 500 books from Nevada to New York when I got a divorce (in my “old” life). It wasn’t until they all arrived at my mother’s garage in a huge crate that I realized I probably would never read them again and I should pass them on. Boy, would I have saved a bunch of money or what!
Anyway, enjoyed the post.
That is a great story.
Don’t you read the books and take them back before you take new ones out? I can’t have more than one book on the go at once. I get to into the story!
“the best kind of monster”!!!
That’s awesome. You all read so much, and love books so much. More people should use the library. I wish I had the problem of my kid wanting too many books from the library!
I know exactly what you mean! My daughter is the same way. I think the library is about her favorite place ever and she gets so excited when I tell her we’re going there. She never leaves with less than ten books and I cannot get her to go to bed at night without having books in bed and she’s only two and a half! The librarian there is like family and I think there’s only about five books in the library left that she hasn’t read. Great post! Glad to hear there are other kids out there who love books that much!
Awesome! Let me know of her favorites or any good books you read. Glad to know I’m not the only one either. Blessings.
Yep! My kids were the same! My daughter learned to read at three and was NEVER without a book since. I taught her that books were her friends and to treat them well, to not leave them laying around the house nor write in them nor turn down the corners. Respect is a good thing for a good book as well as a good friend. Glad you are teaching your son a love of books.