Question
My child lost all her tickets yesterday and then spent the remainder of the day in her room. I removed all the toys but I did leave several books. Today I found out that she had ripped the front cover off of one of the books. She is in elementary school and old enough to know better.
I had to stop myself from having a knee-jerk reaction, so I haven’t acknowledged it to her yet or said anything about it. Now I'm thinking about producing the ripped book at some inopportune time for her when she really wants to do something and then say something like “little girls who rip books aren’t getting enough sleep….”
Should I remove all the books from her room? Can you provide me with some direction on next steps?
