Reading to older children

[Parisbanana]

I recently read The Reading Promise, a memoir type book by a young woman about a promise she and her father made to each other about reading together every day. The promise extended to her leaving home at 18 or so, and they read together, even just a newspaper article or something, every day.
Now I don't aspire to that but am really enjoying the fact that my youngest child who is almost 10, still loves being read to. Because he's my youngest by quite some years, we've always been able to do this. At the moment we're on the 5th Harry Potter book. His dad is reading him Treasure Island. He reads a lot to himself as well, but the books we read to him tend to be more challenging than those he would be inclined to read to himself.

I was telling a friend the other day that I still read to Ds and she was surprised but thought it was nice and wondered whether to start reading to her Ds again (he's the same age)as he's keen.

So what age did you continue reading to your dcs, and why did you stop?
This is just out of interest. With dd I stopped reading to her much earlier.

Still reading to 10.5 y/o dd. Not sure when we'll stop - probably before 18 though! DH & I used to read aloud to each other pre-dd sometimes, its still nice to be read to even when you're an adult :)

Still reading to nearly 12 year old (youngest DC) but stopped a lot earlier with older DCs. Now he's on to books that I actually quite enjoy reading, so that's keeping me going I think!

I've just read some of dd's holiday homework poetry to her and her brother. They are 16 and 11. Is this a record? ( well, no it wasn't- it was me reading aloud.........)

I read to DS (8) because he would never pick up a book himself. We're just starting the 5th Harry Potter book too.

I am a huge reader and it is the only way I can come to terms with the fact he doesn't at all. He really enjoys being read to the lazy blighter and it's nice to snuggle up together with a book after the younger DCs have gone to bed. Long may it continue.

DD is 10 and still listens when we have a story - it's often when we're camping, or have a camp fire in the garden, one of the things we do is have a story while we're sitting round it, and she shows no sign of being "too old" yet.
When we went away in June, we hadn't finished our book, and on the way home in the car, DH sort of very casually remarked that it might be nice to have the last little bit of our story, and he's 47 soon, so I guess you're never too old to enjoy listening to a nice story being read aloud

Still read to DS (10). We read to each other at bedtime.

DH read all the HP books to DD before she read them herself. She was 15 when the last one came out.