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That’s awful :( Thankfully my parents have never done anything to my books as discipline.
no but thats bc before reading i was a stoner n an alchy so #speakingfromtheheart,bfletcherrrr
I'm sorry that happened to you. I can't really recall anything as punishment but my mom would scold me for reading at the dinner table or taking too long brushing my teeth because I was reading.
They only took mine away for a little bit. Then they realized that it was a dumb way to punish me bcuz 1) I like going to bed early🤷♀️ 2) Grounded? Don’t care 3) Electronics? Have ‘em! 4) I make them suffer bcuz I’m so bored and then I don’t go away and bother them.
It took me years to get most of the 21 Famous Five books by Enid Blyton. Every year I wrote five titles on my Christmas and on my birthday wish list, but I only got one volume per Christmas and one volume per birthday. :(I started collecting them when I was 10 years old in 1965.
When I moved out from home 9 years later, my parents had nothing better to do than bring all my children's books to my cousins 500 km south of where we lived.
I was sooo very mad at them!!!
It took me 11 years to find the Famous Five books with the original illustrations by Eileen A. Soper, because around 1972/1973 Bertelsmann had replaced the original illustrations by ugly new illustrations to modernize the Famous Five (who would modernize Anne of Green Gables or Heidi?).
During the following 9 years I searched for them on hundreds of flea markets, put up search notes on elementary school black boards etc.
Well, I still have them and read them from time to time.
No Never...my parents wouldn't have been so cruel 😞
Diane wrote: "No Never...my parents wouldn't have been so cruel 😞"Then you were lucky to have nice parents...not everybody does.
haeyun wrote: "Have your parents ever done something to your books? As a discipline or anything? For me one time I got them all taken away and even one time my mom ripped up my book I’m traumatized"
OMG, I'm SO SORRY that happened to you! I am a volunteer book buyer for a non-profit that buys books for students--anytime, whatever book they want, within 24 hours, delivered directly to ereaders we lend to them. We never try to control what students in middle through high school grades want to read. Of course I have no idea why your mom did that but I am very sorry it happened, and I totally get how traumatized you must feel. All I can say is, parenting is a TOUGH job, anger is hard to control--and parents can make mistakes just as anybody can. Try to let it go, if you can--holding it will do you no good and may make things worse. You have a whole life ahead to choose what you read for yourself.
Umm, no! That is awful, and it is unfortunate that you had to experience that.
once my grandma took my book from me because I had been reading all day and forced me to watch cartoons for a while. Breaking a book sounds awful, I'm so sorry they did that
Great misfortune :( my dad once sold all my older sisters books, saying they're **giving her bad thoughts/ideas** my dad being a strict religious person, but lucky never done anything to me
oh no! that's awful :( my parents haven't done that but once they made me stop reading any fantasy books for like half a year which was not fun lol ... it did make me get more into historical fiction though so that's good ig
That’s horrible! Honestly parents shouldn’t take books away as a punishment, let alone destroy them, it should be a good thing that kids are engaged in more intellectual interests. A lot of kids are obsessed with their phones or video games so parents shouldn’t associate taking away knowledgeable resources as punishment.
I don't think my parents ever did anything with my books discipline wise. and with my kids same. I won't ever use books against them. books are the foundation of so many things and to have your kids resent books is so sad.
That's horrible! I would never let my parents do that.
never happened to me before thank God. actually I'm the only one (out of my siblings) who likes to read mom and dad are very supportive and they always encourage me to read more/discuss what I read with them