How do you foster a love for reading in your child?

You can start with simple books, just with pictures and one word, letting your child flip through them and look at the images and colours - it'll be good to start with board books if you're worried about book destruction! As you progress further, you can move into story books and read with your child - there are several ways to read with them so do them all! Holding the book and reading to them is one, but having them on your lap and reading together is another - when doing the latter, focus more on what interests your child than to stay fixated on the storyline. It also helps to lead by example, we live in the hustle and bustle of busy city life, so it does help us too when we just spend some time reading than just scrolling aimlessly on social media. Frequent trips to the library might help too, in fact, I don't buy my son any books and we just go to the library - I go with my son when I just want to let him have the experience there, but I go alone when I actually want to borrow some books for him.