AIBU to still read to my 11 year old every night?

[lu9months]

I still like to read to my DD every night (sometimes while she is in the bath ) and put her to bed. my 18 year old back from uni was laughing and saying she is too old for this and I need to let her be independent. she gets herself up, does her lunch, walks to school and back by herself. but she is definitely young for her years. she's my youngest so I do think I baby her a little. id happily carry on reading to her forever! but I assume she will stop me when she is ready - her brothers did. AIBU?

I read to my husband the other day! Keep doing what works for you both.

I still read to DS 11 and dd 9..she still gets in the bath with me and its often the time she tells me things that are worrying her. They are both quite private around each other but not me.

I will read to my kids as long as they will let me! Maybe time for getting used to privacy in the bath though, and then read with her when she is in bed.

I used to put my DS to bed and have a chat and a cuddle. I stopped when he went to uni.

I also remember studying To Kill A Mockingbird for GCSE English and our fantastic teacher read the whole lot aloud to us over a course of several lessons. He did great voices too. I must have been 14 and loved it! Pretty sure English teachers read books aloud a lot in secondary school.

I don't see anything wrong with it. if she enjoys it and you enjoy it why stop? I think it's lovely.

@Scarling - we’ve just finished The Ickabog - we both loved it. I’m usually happy for DH to take a turn with reading to DS, but not for that book.

What a lovely way to spend one on one time with your child. Mine still likes to be read Twas the night before Christmas on Christmas Eve and she's 23!

DD is 12 and I still read to her. We're reading The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy at the moment, and she's loving it. I often stay in her room for half an hour afterwards and we chat. About school, friends and at the moment, the nature of the universe, whether we think there could be parallel universes. You know, the meaning of life, the universe and everything!
I don't plan on stopping until she wants me to.

My almost 11 year old still loves being read to at night (usually Ronald Dahl or Harry Potter or similar), and our 13 year old sometimes wants us to as well (he's into conspiracy theories or Alex Rider just now).

Yanbu it’s sweet, I don’t see the issue if your dd is enjoying it?

My 13 year old still gets a story every night. it is getting hard to find suitable books to read to her, but we are working through quite a lot of sci-fi and historical novels.

I was devastated when my parents stopped reading to me just because I could read myself. Every so often my husband will read a book aloud to me at bedtime rather than us reading our own separate books. What's the difference between that and an audiobook, apart from the fact that it's so much nicer to have someone you love sharing the book with you?

Read away!

Reading aloud used to be a totally normal thing for people of all ages. Have you lot never read books like Little Women where Jo reads to her elderly aunt? Or the sagas and epic poems which were told aloud? It's an incredibly human thing for people of any age to read aloud to people of any age. It's not babyish at all.

@PerspicaciousGreen does yr DH have any single brothers? Cousins? Sounds wonderful!