Do you read your own books in front of DC?

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We are doing our best to raise DD as a reader, she has a lot of books and we have been reading to her daily since she was a few months old. I have read somewhere that the best way to raise a kid as a reader is to lead by example and that children that have parents who read in front of them are more likely to be into books later in life. Issue is that when we are with DD, we are usually engaged in activities with her. I realised in all these years of parenting I have almost never had the chance to sit on the sofa in the same room and read my book whilst she is busy playing or watching TV. I find she requires constant attention and involvement from our end (we both work FT so when we are together we feel that we should really give her our full focus).

Does this make me (us) weird or is anyone else in the same boat? Do you ever sit down to read your own books during the day when DCs are not in bed yet?

Mine are older now so easier. And they always want to know what I am reading and whats happening - not always reading an appropriate book!
When younger though I sometimes had a magazine on the go do that would sit on table and they would ask questions about the pictures, we then would subscribe to magazines for the Beano, science etc.

One of mine now barely reads!

I do this but it's a fairly recent thing and has coincided with a) a conscious effort from me to reduce the amount of time I'm scrolling on my phone in front of DC and b) my eldest (7 yo) being able to read independently. I used to sit and scroll while they watched cartoons after school, kept my phone tucked in the cushion at the side of the sofa - now I try and leave my phone somewhere out of sight e.g. kitchen and keep a book there instead so I can just pick it up when they're otherwise engaged.