Stop reading at bedtime?

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What age did you stop reading to your children at night?
Dd11 & ds 9. Dd quite happy to do her own thing, but ds 9 likes the reading at night. Just wondering what others do. Dd wants to stay up late, ds wants to be read to. I'm on my own sometimes and it doesn't always work.

Can you move DS onto audio books? I'm assuming you can control how long they play for somehow. He can listen without you being involved.

I read more challenging things to my 9 year olds or if it’s more basic stuff like wimpy kid they read themselves. They choose depending on which books they are currently into. I’ll be quietly gutted when they don’t want me to read to them anymore, it’s such a lovely time of day.

I think the oldest was 17 when I stopped, siblings a bit younger. Divorce and evening working meant I wasn’t around in the evenings.

I still read to my 9 yr old before bed, she reads herself but we both still like this cosy time before bed so I am just going with it until she doesent want me to.

I read to my 9 year old, think i stopped reading to her sister when she was about 11.

I would read to Ds on the nights you can read. Sometimes both boys and girls can fall out of reading before bed so cherish sharing it while you can.

Ds1 stopped reading at bedtime around 15 and Ds2 around 18 just before he went to uni. Me reading to them in bed stopped at the end of primary sadly. I am an avid reader so they have always seen me read books.

I still read to Ds1 who is now 21 it just isn't at bedtime because he goes to bed later than me I agree that reading a challenging book and talking about it with them is very beneficial for their comprehension skills. Ask them questions about it, ask about characters and feelings, challenge them to find better words and make sure they know what words mean. This helps enrich their vocabulary all of which is important in GCSEs.

I still read to/with Ds10 as he loves the time. We read more challenging stuff. Dd9 is an avid reader, she reads to herself a lot but I still have at least 2 nights with her reading. I also 2 younger siblings so DH & I alternate.

Lots of benefits to you reading to the DC until they go to secondary school. Agree with PP, read more complex bools to them than they read for themselves. Older books, even just 25 years old, have a far broader range of words than the new celebrity books.

Mine are the same age and we still do nightly stories. They take it in turns choosing a book. My 11 year old is still quite immature so I’m hoping it’ll continue for a while yet! When he decides he wants to stop being read to, we’ll carry on reading to his younger brother, but for now it works to settle them both down. Then the older one reads to himself for a while before he goes to sleep

Thanks all. Any book suggestions? Both kids love to read. They year 4 & 6.

We are reading The Boy At the Back of the Class atm (my Y4 boy chose it). It’s aimed at Y4/5 and is about a refugee boy coming to a new school. Next we will read The Last Wild which is more of a Y6 text but not overly wordy so accessible to Y4

About 11 when we stopped with older two.. Ds is 9 we still read to him or he read to us. Favourites are-

Roald Dahl
Wrigglesbottom primary Pamela Butchart
Billy and the mini monsters

That is the saddest paragraph I have ever read on Mumsnet 😢

DD1 (age 12) and DD2 (age 10) still listening to a nightly chapter of a story. I'll be rather melancholy when they want to stop!

I never want to stop! Do they let you FaceTime them when they're 25 to read a few chapters??

Mine is still only 6, but i’ll be sad when she no longer wants me to 😔

Ds in year 5 is loving the Adventures on trains series (California Comet etc), we have just finished I am Rebel. We have recently read White Fang together too. (He’s dyslexic loves reading but tires easily).

Dd in year 4 loves Holly Webb winter series, Hannah Gold, Turtle Moon & Roman Mysteries series. We read Varjak Paw before Christmas too. Both love Michael Morpurgo for the history/animal themes.

what sort of things are they interested in?