Do you read bedtime stories?

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2 books without fail every night in our house for 3 year old ds. Tbh we all enjoy it.

I don't do it, purely coz ds gets himself too excited so we do reading after his midday nap.
I started reading to him when he was about 2 weeks old and it was always at bedtime until about 4 months and it seemed to wake him up more. I know loads of people that read at different times through the day instead of bedtime, but a few of my friends laughed at me when I told them I read to my 2 week old

I read to my kids when I can. It might be raining outside so we read.

DS often asks us to read whilst he is eating dinner.

We also watch DVD's together. I do not watch any TV whatsoever, so it's all good.

Yes,they get a story each and ds reads me his school reading book,too.It is part of the bath/milk/story bed routine.At the moment ds loves "Tiddler" and "Stick man".DD loves "Busy Spider" and "Dear Zoo" .I must say it is more protracted and bedtime is later at the moment as dp in hospital and we usually do one each.

Littleboyblue,

My DH read 'The Hobbitt' to DS from day one. I thought he was mad. I think DH thought he was mad after a while.

three stories here for our 20 month old

My dp wouldn't do it coz he said he felt stupid, although there was no one there to see it!
I think it's nice

I read to dd1 every night ((smug emoticon))...

I strongly encouraged her to love Miffy though, as the stories went along the lines of "Miffy got up, went to the park, fed the ducks, came home and went to bed"....40 seconds or so, bob's yer uncle, and goodnight! ((crap mother emoticon))

i read to my dd1 from about 2 weeks coz i am rubbish at talking to dcs so i thought it was a way of getting her to hear my voice! didnt need to with dd2 as she heard me talking with dd1. yes i do 2 bedtime stories- 1 each. though keep remembering biggest selection is downstairs so we tend to read percy the parkkeeper x 2 every night which gets a bit wearing after a while lovely though they are!

Yes - me and dh take it turns. Unless for some reason dd has gone to bed extra late. Normally she gets a story read to her, then can listen to a CD story for a while.

Still read to mine every day - though not necessarily before bed - and they're 9.
Thoroughly advocate it as you can chose fairly challenging books that need some explanation.

Have read to DS pretty much from day one - and not just at bedtime. Since he was able to crawl, the books have always been available to him to choose and bring over for us to read which he still does now he is 2.4.

However, he seems less bothered now about us reading to him - he used to ask us all day every day (or so it seemed!)

But we do still do a 'bedtime' book - he has a nappy stacker by the side of his bed which is not used for nappies - I put a selection of books in so he picks one of them and I read it to him whilst he is tucked up in bed.

Can I just say the idea the nursery has had sounds lovely - what a fab idea

Reading to your children in my opinion is the one truly amazing thing you can do for them. As a working mother for 20 years, it is bliss to reconnect with a little warm person at the end of the day and provide such pleasure. As they get older, you up the ante, and make sure they ask questions about what you are reading - which should always be a little out of their personal reading reach. So Northanger Abbey to a clever 10 year old girl. Narnia when she was three and the boys were five. The two older ones read frantically, all the time and understand that you can never be bored if you have a book somewhere about your person. I find them leaning against things reading. The littler one is not quite there yet, but the pleasure I personally get from reading all that I enjoyed over and over again is wonderful. At the moment, The Just So Stories, so funny and bizarre, and he adores them. Books, a gift. Thank goodness for them. Teenager son in the bath with a book as I type. And there is so much more and better stuff for them now than 15 years ago before JK Rowling restored children's books to the forefront of publishing again (as well as a lot of rubbish - but it doesn't matter really what they read, as long as they know that books deliver magic).

We have stopped reading to DS which seems a bit sad and I am wondering about reinstating it. He is 7 though and a very good and keen reader so he always reads to himself at bedtime. We stopped when I had a bad cough and couldn't manage chapter books and never really started again.

DH and I take it in turns to read DD a bedtime story every evening. She is 4. We started with both children when they were a few months old.

dd3 has 3 books at least every night and numerous read to her throughout the day...we recently moved and realised she has over 150 books..(not including baby books)

yes all the time and bedtime stories, whenever she brings me a book really, or when I need a bit of a sit down . Can get a little tedious when they want it 7 times in a row though!

Yes, every night without fail to both dcs (2.5, 9months), and they both love it (as do I). We have at least 3 stories, sometimes more.

Often snuggle on the sofa with ds1 in the daytime too for stories.

We seem to have stopped it as well, now our DDs are 7. They love to lay in bed and read by themselves, and sometimes I think great, sometimes i think it's a shame.

I know I've get it so often wrong with parenting - but I'm really glad that I've always read to my DD who is now three. She gets two or three stories a night, mostly the same one over again. Her GPs and DH are amazed at her ability to recall a story and she quite often surprises me with her vocabulary. I love books and am really delighted that I can share this with her. What a fab idea at the nursery - might suggest it to mine.

DSS (aged 12) reads to himself now but will discuss his books with us lots. His mum read to him until he was about 10, though he could read himself. He couldnt read at all till he was about 8. But we all think that us and his Mum's reading to him meant that he overcame his reading difficulties (a mixture of dyslexia and a bad speech impedement) and made him determined to do read.

He now loves reading on his own.

Our DS1 (aged 3) would have us read every book in the house if we could get away with it. But we usually read him about 4 before bed, but a few during the day as well.

DS2 (aged 18 months) loves books and gets a couple before bed but more in the day, as he loves going to bed so much.

DD1 has story before bed every night, as well as other times in the day. Me and DH take it in turns. Just started reading to DD2, she is 16 weeks

dd 14mo comes running with a book going "thorey" throughout the day a few at bed time
dh read to my bump and made up stories one about the three little pigs saving for a mortagage nearly wreaked my bladder when i was heavily pergnant

Most nights and getting excited now as she is steering away from picture books and wants longer stories so can start doing chapter books soon. I think a trip to Waterstones is needed.

we do.but according to my friends who have dc.we are a minority.school says you can tell we do!