How old were your LOs when you started reading them bedtime stories??

[thethirdwiseeasterbunny]

Just being nosey. My ds is usually ready to go straight off to sleep so unless we read to him 30 mins before bedtime, the story would fall on deaf ears. What age was your LOs when you started reading to them? do you read to them in their bedroom, once they're tucked in ??

I read to ds (22 months) frequently during the day, and at bedtime he has 'The Going to Bed Book' by Sandra Boynton - a sweet, slightly silly, very simple little book - he's had it as his bedtime 'story' since he was about 9 months.

Ds is 20 months and would not tolerate a bedtime story - for him bedtime is about cuddles with mummy! I have been reading to him since he was really small during the day but nightime is not for books - not for him anyway!!

I started at a few weeks old (first time mother !!) just as something to do really but ds would cry if read to - I think it was too much sensory input for him.

He pretty much cried and pushed all books away until he was a year old or so so I intermittently tried to read to him but didn't bother much.

Then he started to like board books where he could push/play/touch stuff but would't sit to listen to anything he couldn't play with so normal paper books were out as he would just tear them. this went on unti he was 2 years old. In the last couple of months (he is 2.4) he will now listen to a story and won't tear the book and in fact loves being read to now.

So in answer to your question - regular reading at bedtime has only started to happen in the last few months (2 years old)

From a few weeks old with ds1 would occasionally read to him before that but it became part of his routine at about 6 weeks i guess - really helped settle him down to sleep and from about 6 months he has actively enjoyed reading books and now (2.2) he will sit and look at books by himself for ages and ages, as well as demanding 3 or 4 at bedtime. Ds2 (7 months)has had bedtime stories from the very beginning by default as he feeds while we read to ds1 - if hes awake enough he likes to join in to but most nights is half asleep by this stage!