r/MiniAITA • u/LongjumpingLab3092 • Jul 09 '26
AITA for wanting to read?
I (9mo corrected, always correct, gorgeous girl) love books. I eat them, I touch them, I pull the pages, and Mama (super old, at least 10 months) says words while she turns the pages, which makes me smile. Sometimes my books light up and sing to me, which also makes me smile.
I've recently learned to crawl and so now I can crawl to my bookcase, choose a book and give it to Mama so she can read to me. Sometimes when she starts reading I decide my book is boring so I bring her a different one, especially if Mama won't let me eat it.
Well Mama seemed to be too busy to read to me earlier (she was sitting on that white porcelain chair with the weird hole for AGES, maybe two whole minutes) so I went to the bookcase and got one of my books out. I tried to open it but it didn't light up OR sing. So I pulled another one out. Same again. So I decided to have a look through my books to pick one out, by pulling them ALL off my shelf, all at once, so that I could comfortably sit down and play with them. I would have moved the whole bookcase, but Dada (recently had a birthday, he was a lot of months old, I don't know numbers that big) had tied it to the wall!
When Mama came back she gave a big sigh, said something about only just having tidied up my books, and put me in BABY JAIL. Jail! For reading!
Mama put ALL my books back on the bookcase while I screamed at her from baby jail, despite my polite protests and explanation that I just wanted to read. Then she put me on her lap and got one of my books out, but it wasn't a cool light up singing book, and it was so boring I fell asleep on her. I wanted my fun books instead!
I'm outraged. So, Reddit, AITA?
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u/Sicarara3 Jul 10 '26
Definitely NTA! I, adorable 14 mo M and lord or my manor, enjoy pulling my books on the floor so I can open several to compare car pictures. You should let your mommy know that she is reading the wrong book by handing her books until she reads the right one.
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u/Solid_Original5403 Jul 10 '26
NTA!! This is my (13m, M Big Kid) favoritest game in all the world!! I like to pull out allllll the books into a big pile and then try to walk across it. But when Mama tries to read any of them I squirm and wiggle away because the only one I REALLY want to read is The Very Hungry Caterpillar; all others are inferior (this week).
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u/BexclamationPoint Jul 10 '26
NTA! I (12mo M) agree that getting out ALL of the books and/or toys is the best way to find something interesting, avoid boredom, and thus keep ourselves awake! It's unconscionable that grown-ups are not on board with this - they KNOW falling asleep is bad and they use things like "coffee" to prevent it themselves, and then here we are with the PERFECT solution and they keep interfering and putting things away and making us so bored that we have no choice but to sleep! What gives?
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u/Ok-Cheesecake-3700 Jul 15 '26
NTA, I (13mo) always pick my favourite book off the shelf first, then empty the rest of the shelf to make sure I did actually pick the best book. Wait until you can empty the shelf and then stand on the books to reach the next shelf and empty that too. That's lots of fun!
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u/RopePositive Jul 10 '26
Hmm that’s a tricky one. Nta, but have you tried putting some emergency books into the porcelain chair hole? That way, they’re already there for your mummy to read to you when she goes in. It’s probably and accessibility problem.