to think bedtime story is overrated?

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We read but not every night.
Some nights they are so tired. Wendsdays is one of them, they 've done 2 schools they 'll come home in an hour very tired.
When we read we do it for the pleasure.
What about you?

Good morning sorry for going last night.
Thank you for your posts.

What i meant by 'over-rated' is that i see it as part of snuggling, sometimes we will read a story sometimes not, sometimes we will chat. I have just noticed in RL that some people see it as the ultimate parenting duty and a guarantee to sent dcs to Oxford. I dont get the 'we are bookworms, we read every night, our dcs will be advanced....etc'.
But most of you here have said that you enjoy it as 'snuggle time' which i agree is lovely.

For the record, we do like reading. And we read at bedtime but not every night, not religiously. That was my point. We might spend all sunday morning reading on the sofa for example. What difference does it make?

mumblecrumble i like your slogan.

Well I grew up loving reading (I'm an only child who hates sports, and loved spending long summer holidays just reading through dozens of books). It helped me do well at school and is still a favourite leisure activity. Now some of it will be genes (Dad is also a bookworm), but I know my Mam always put a lot of my love of books down to her reading to me every night when I was younger, so I think I've absorbed that in terms of a standard, good, thing to do.

Now it's just part of our bedtime routine - I think DS would be horrified/confused if we tried to get him into bed without reading him a story first. We read to him a lot the rest of the time as well, but it's just our family routine that a story is the last thing done before it's time for him to sleep.