What age did you stop reading to your children at bedtime?

[LittleRebelGirl]

Mine are 11 and 9. 11 year old has told me he feels too old to be read to now. 9 year old hasn't said anything. But I haven't read to them the last few weeks as we've been watching the euros almost every night! Now it's coming to an end I need to have a good think about going forward.
I feel sad, and shit if I stop reading to them. But it has to stop at some point. I just don't know when that time should be... we just finished reading the 2nd Harry potter. It took months though! I would read half a chapter 4 nights a week (didn't do it on Fri or sat, nor weds as they had a late club). My 9 year old didn't seem to enjoy either the 1st or 2nd HP books. My 11 year old did... but it's the 11 year old who has said he doesn't want me to read anymore! I could just carry on reading to my 9 year old and my 11 year old could go and read by himself perhaps? I'm keen to encourage reading, and a love of it. I'm not sure they love it, but I don't think they hate it either! They both read to me, 11 year old 3 times a week (he has autism and adhd and getting him to do more than this is basically impossible, as school say they want them to read 3x a week so that is all he will do without extreme meltdowns). 9 year old reads 5x a week to me. But I feel like I should do more?
Help!

11 feels too old to me

9 still ok to read to

The youngest is 9 and she asks now and then. I think I stopped reading every night under a year ago as they read on their own mostly.
So I probably read once a week or so?

DS is nearly 5 and I rarely read to him at night now as he wants to read himself. I'm not allowed to do it anymore! I'm hoping this might switch back at some point but I was reading adult-ish books when I was 10/11 (things like Agatha Christie) so I wouldn't be expecting to read to a child at that age.

12 year old still has reading club with her dad every night. 7 year old I read to and we do a little shared read to the baby after bathtime.

8 year old we read to most nights - currently doing the Adventures on Trains books.

12yo mostly doesn't, but now and then he'll get into a book and I'll read to him - recently did the Hunger Games books which he loved having me read to him.

I read in my youngest’s (7) room and my eldest (9) always joins us but is free not to. Do they share or could you do similar?

Mine are 14 and 11 now and I haven’t read to them in many years! It stopped when they both realised that they could read in their heads quicker (and so get more story!) than I could read out loud.

I think that dd was about 6 or 7 and ds was nearly 5. (He was a very early reader.) I really miss it. Most nights I still lie on ds’s bed with him for 20 mins or so and we each read our own books.

The 11 year old can read books on his own.
Find some other stories to read to the 9 year old.

In yr 4 Primary school teacher told me it was important to still read to DS. We read books beyond his advanced reading age eg., Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird. He read The Hobbit and sections of Lord of the Rings to his DC when they were a similar age.

I never read at bedtime, reading was earlier. But that's not really relevant.

I can't remember exactly when I stopped reading to them but it was at a point they found it easy to read to themselves. So S1 probably around 5 or 6, S2 maybe 7 or 8.

I don't remember my parents ever reading to me. My sister read me Heidi when I was 3 (I suspect when we had a new baby) and by the time we were four chapters in I could read. From that point on I just read for myself, and it never occurred to me that this might be considered a problem.

There are plenty of other things my parents did.

We read until Y6 I think, DD was 10 then.

We read books advanced of what DD would read herself. We read mainly in her second native language though and she would then continue a chapter before moving on reading for herself.

I must say most 11 year olds aren't really into getting HP read to them. I think by 11 DD had read all of them on her own. I would look at books you can read togehter and talk about it. Your younger one can have their own book with you.

and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have read Lord of the Flies or To Kill a Mockingbird to a primary school child

(and S1 finished LoTR four years younger than I gave up on it)

I didn’t think we ever would. Actually I was hoping that my dc would take over and do some of the reading as they got older. I was quite surprised when ds started avoiding it around 9, and dd lasted reluctantly to about 11.

I did encourage them to listen to audible - dd does. But ds finds them too slow compared to his own reading speed.

My 6yr old granddaughter sometimes reads to her little brother 3yrs now, so sweet

I used to read a bedtime story to DSD every night until she left for uni as she found it relaxing. But she discovered Audible while at uni and doesn’t need me any more. Don’t worry about what’s ‘right’ — just enjoy it for as long as possible.

My youngest will be 13 next month and I still read to him at night. It’s one of the highlights of the day, for both of us.

Still reading to 9 year old. My 13 year old I stopped around 10 I think when she wasn't bothered anymore

I would happily still read to my 8 year old DS but over the last 6 months he just wants to read to himself so we seem to have reached a natural end. I think that is the best way - just wait until they don't want you to anymore.

About 6. Me reading aloud slowed them down and I apparently I do the voices they'd created in their heads all wrong. I still lie on their beds and I read my kindle while they read theirs. Means they can still ask questions and check words and I have a vague idea of what they are reading as well. If they're feeling sad or ill though they like me to read to them as a comfort thing.

It was about 8/9 for each child but that was because I feel it's really important that they read books for themselves once they can as then their imagination isn't clouded by how their parent reads the book. That said, when we went camping, I would be the official nighttime book reader well into their teens.

I was read to until 10 (possibly a little older - sickly child, not much else entertainment in the 80s) because I loved the feeling of being read to.
My sister stated aged six that should 'read all by herself thank you very much'. However she and her son (DNephew aged 8) have many a great a read along with each other taking it in turns.
Honestly aged 50+, if someone offered to read me a story in person I would bite their hand off/sink into tears. But I really cannot get along with audiobooks - it's a conundrum.

13 & 12 (still reading to the younger ones) they're both bookworms

I assume your kids could read HP easily themselves so I would find something more challenging for read aloud & let them read HP to themselves.

I was reading Austin, Brontë, Scott type books to my 13 when we stopped

13 or 14ish. Gradually it tailed off when we finished a book and the couldn't find a new suitable one. I ended up reading a lot of Phillipa Gregory to DD1 at 14.

About 8 or 9 with mine, although they always wanted DH not me. They would spend ages discussing the latest book or planning their next bookshopping trip.

I was allowed to read stories to them, just not at bedtime.

My dad read stories at bedtime for years.

When I was 16 I'd sneak in and sit on the floor while he read Narnia stories to my 4 little brothers.

Only really stopped when I left home for uni at 17.6