It's easing now the nights are past their peak lightness, but my DCs are definitely night owls anyway. With having had no incentive to get them up in the morning for over 4 months, they've been going to sleep past sunset and it's been one of those battles that just hasn't seemed worthwhile. By late August, sun set will be a more sensible time to train them to a more conventional body clock.
Shameful confession time, I haven't done much reading with the DCs, especiallyrecently. DS1 does read independently, albeit a limited repetoire of what he likes. DS2 is more reluctant. I think it is just thatconstant, relentless contact with eachother, my general decline in attention span, loss of meaningful routine driven by anything external and picking my battles. Plus it's now 5 years since DS1started school and with his dyslexia, it's been a slog (plus nearly 9 years since we started the bedtime read routine). I was feeling pretty stale about bedtime reading anyway. Hopefully a change of dynamic come September will refresh that.
I was a proper Matilda about learning to read. It's been very alien having a severely dyslexic child and a reluctant reader.