what age was your child when you started to read stories to them at bedtime?

[tinseltree]

just interested to know........

From birth - it was the one thing i was looking forward to most about being a parent!

They still like me reading to them (and they're 13 and 11 now). I was reading them Life of Pi the other week.

We haven't started bedtime stories yet (ds is almost 18 months) but he loves books and will quite happily sit and 'read' to himself, chattering away, or point to the pictures with me. He didn't really have much of a chance not to since I work in a bookshop

Funniest thing the other day - I asked him to bring a book to me so we could sit and read it together. He walked over, handed me a book, then toddled back over to the pile, picked up one for himself and very deliberately sat over the other side of the room with his back to me, opened the book and began to read! He obviously didn't want mummy disturbing his concentration!

At around 8m I would read to DD1 before her daytime nap, and she would go off to sleep. She was such a bad napper, that it was the only thing I found worked. In fact, until she dropped her daytime sleep recently (2 1/2 now) I have always read a book to her before her nap. Then from about a 14m, we included a book (or 2 - thanks DH!) at bedtime with her bedtime routine.

Will probably start to read at bedtime for DD2 at bedtime at around same time, but not yet (9m).

She does like to "read" a book during the day with me. Just never do it as often as I did with DD1. Bad, BAD mummy.

bedtime story from 13 months, when no more breast feeds to make her sleepy.

I read to DS from very young, but only at bedtime from around 2 years. Before then I found it livened him up rather than calmed him done, which was certainly not the point.

I 'read' to dd very occasionally during the day when she was a baby (i.e. showed her a cloth book - didn't involve much reading), but didn't start bed time stories until she was about 15 months old. She does get a lot out of them now.

When I think about ds (8 months)I can't imagine there would be any value in reading a bed time story to him. He prefers his bed time milk followed by a snuggly cuddle and raspberries blown onto his neck. Reckon I'll start the bed time story routine when he's old enough to appreciate it.

4 weeeks - and at 14 months the only thing that will hold his attention longer than a nanosecond is a book - he loves reading to himself so in my opinion it's all been worth it.

Ummm but so does my daughter love books - passionately (she is 2.5 now), and I didn't start until she was over 1!

From a very young age. Both dh and I read a lot and dd has obviously picked up on this cos she loves books and being read to. We read to her every day, morning, noon and night and she reads/looks at books on her own. We get 'read a book mummy/daddy, read it, read it, read it, read it .........!!! She has so many books and we go to the Library too.

I started reading to dd when she was tiny more for me I think - it was a real mummy and dd 5 minutes where we could snuggle up without any interference.

ds (12) now has the task - she wont let anyone else do bedtime stories - he reads to her snuggled up in her chair in the bedroom whilst I get to watch the 1st half of Emmerdale

I used to scare the kids witless with my Cut-Throat Jake voice when reading Captain Pugwash. Probably put them off books for life