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!

I am still reading to DS who is almost 11 and reckon I will be next academic year as we need to finish Harry Potter. He does read other books to himself too. DD I can’t remember, maybe 12, but she was also reading lots by herself and it was sporadic by then. The other day I read a chapter of something to her as a one-off and she is 14.

Still reading to my 12 year old.

Mine is 10 and I still read to her.
I'll carry on as long as she'll let me!
But yes it does take months to get through books when they get to this age.
She'd never read the books I read to her herself though that's the thing. Even though they're for her age. She's not a big reader. But she enjoys it when I read to her. And I've quite enjoyed the more recent ones too!

I’m in my forties and I still enjoy being read to! DH and I often share a book and take turns reading a chapter out loud. Why does reading have to stop?

I've just re-read your OP. Why have you put your 9 year old through months of being read Harry Potter when they don't like it?!

I don’t think there is an age. We did read every night to both boys when they were younger (under 10) , then the older one chose to read for hours alone. Now the eldest is 13 and doesn’t enjoy reading books at all, especially late in the evening. He does like a chapter read to him at bedtime (helps him sleep). We do this most week nights.
I use this as an opportunity to spend time with them on shared interest books and get some sneaky literacy in. Not sure when it will stop but it is working ok right now.

This is lovely.

My 6 year old loves reading and I get her to read to me. Her older brother reads on his own now and both love audio books.

I stopped when DD was 10. We went into lockdown and Netflix took over...

DCs are 8 & 6 - reading to them at bedtime kind of petered out about 8 or 9months ago when DP was taken ill & he & I were under a lot of stress because of it. But even then, before that DC1 was starting to want to read their own book, not listen to what DC2 wanted. Sometimes DC1 reads to DC2 now, but they're both reasonably content to sit in bed & read (not just at bedtime but throughout the day, even some afternoons after school) we try & encourage reading as a past time as an alternative to screens (it doesn't always work!) but we definitely don't restrict the time the want to spend reading (unless it's significantly past lights out time - looking at you DC1!)

DDs are 17 & 14 and I still read to them most nights. They're both dyslexic so find being read to at bedtime then reading themselves. We tend to do books they wouldn't necessarily read themselves or that need some explanation as we go along - we did the Hitch Hikers Guide recently and are now doing Golden Age detective fiction. I'll only stop if they tell me to

Ds is 12 and I still read to him before bed. I keep thinking he’ll get fed up with it soon but I think for him it’s just a routine part of bedtime now. Maybe I’ll still be reading to him when he’s 30 at this rate! 🤣