Do you read bedtime stories?

[dilemma456]

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i will moan though that ive read blardy'little red car' for about 67 days running.

Yes, we do. It is part of our bedtime routine - tbh, I don't think DD would go to bed without stories. At least 3 in our house - she is 2.6. I think it is really sad if it is in decline. Its my favourite part of the day - we have a cuddle and she drinks her milk. Its lovely.

I always read to my kids at bedtime, and i never have problem getting to them to bed because they love me doing the voices and the actions.
They love it so much they tell me when it is bedtime.

(grin)

We all pile into my bed and I read a horrid Henry story to DS1 & DS2 (8yrs and 4yrs). DS1 then reads us some of whatever book he is reading at the moment. They both go to bed and listen to a CD story each as well.

I have always read to them from being babies. I have previously read the first four Harry Potter's to DS1 and all the Alex Rider books. DS2 is hooked on Horrid Henry.

However DP always wants to put the CD story on straight away and never wanted to read to them when they were babies either prevfering a tape or cd.

DH does bedtime and always reads one or two books to the dd's. I am a shite mummy. I have done the bedtime stories to the ds's for years and i quite like DH doing all the bath/story etc etc.

I just do the kiss night night thing lol

Do you know of any good books for 5 year old

Oh no, I've been found out. I used to read to my three every night, but now it's once or twice a week. Must try harder.

Either dh or I will every night and have done since she was a baby. I have no idea whether it has resulted in her love of books, but I am over the moon that she loves reading so much.

My dsd only ever had a bedtime story when she was with us. She hates reading and thinks books are boring and pointless and I'm sad about that. Whether it's because she wasn't used to having bedtime stories I don't know.

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I read every night too, but TBH I love the sounds of my own voice.

Yes - DH won't do it, but I always read to both and DS reads to me. DS and I are struggling ATM (which means we are reverting to 'old', short stories) as we need to find new 'chapter' books to get into, and also I need to find a comfortable way of reading to a child who is in a cabin bed - having to stand up at the end of the day when my feet are generally killing me destroys all my enthusiasm.

DD loves 'Happy Birthday Blue Kangaroo' best ATM

Well...we always read at bed time...and kinda still do...but now it's the Kids reading me their books, rather then me reading to them....otherwise I jsut can't fit reading with them in nowadays....
but on weekends,and whenever I can I do read to them....

I did it while I was SAHM, then quit for a while when I started work again, but after prioritising laundry and slumping in chairs with wine for 8 months, I promised myself if I did nothing else I'd read their story.

We're on book 5 of the Baudelaire saga, they love it, and what ever else I don't get done in the day, I'm always glad I've done that.

I do read to DD but am worried about the stories getting longer as I get breathless when I read aloud....really pathetic, eh? I didn't think I was that unfit

We always read a story before bedtime, normally 2 books, one for each child. They love poems and the Puffin book of first poems is a firm favourite. They can recite some of them with me.

They are 6yo and 4yo and we started reading to DD when she was about 4mths old.

alwaysinthekitchen - I just asked elsewhere for recommendations on what to read to my 4.8yo when we finish the Magic Faraway Tree books, and got bombarded with: Narnia books, Finn Family Moomintroll, Just So stories, My Naughty Little Sister, Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, Olga Da Polga, Gobbolino the Witch's Cath, Adventures of the Wishing Chair, The Worst Witch, Roald Dahl. Then when I was looking on Amazon Mrs Pepperpot and The Borrowers popped up. Also The Hobbit, but I think that's still a bit old for her.

I am in charge of bedtime stories - DH does it occasionally, but reckons that DD has finally twigged that I'm a better reader than he is. She has three picture books each evening (the first one is usually one she can join in with in some way) and at the moment two chapters of The Folk of the Faraway Tree. Takes ages.

Oh yes. And DD is 9 now. But I love reading 'classics' to her - ones I loved as a child. I'm currently doing a Swallows and Amazons (we're up to the Big Six). One or two chapters a night. We both enjoy it - I rather like 'dramatizing' them, doing accents and stuff as apt [don't read The Secret Garden aloud unless you can speak passable Yorkshire ]

Alwaysinthekitchen
Check out the Puffin book of first poems (I think it is called). There is also a follow-on book available, for slightly older DCs that I want to get soon, it is supposed to be good too.

George and the Dragon is good

My two also love the Julia Donaldson books, especially the Gruffallo which I love to read too. And the Hairy McLary ones.

We've just got up to 4 stories a night - it was 3 for a while, but now dd is going to get another one after she's cleaned her teeth (and I'm letting her because I'm slightly book-obsessed). We're on picture books at the moment (she's only 2.4) but I can't wait to start reading her all my old books from when I was little.

It really sounds like a lovely day at your dd's nursery.

We read a bedtime story too to the dc, every night.

We have a bed time story on the bed whilst the boys have their milk - then DS1 has another story in his bed with one of us whilst DS2 gets put to bed by whoever isn't reading the 2nd story.
We are nearly at the point where DS2 wants another story once he goes tobed as well I will love that.

we do, every night, unless we've been out and back too late.

DS always gets stories at bedtime, just as I always had them when I was young. In fact I sometimes use it as a bribe to hurry him into his pyjamas/brush his teeth etc, warning him that if he faffs about and wastes time, there'll only be time for one story, not two. (A bit naughty of me, really, but it works, although I rarely follow-through with it.)
He always gets to choose, and if he chooses two short ones, I'll let him have an extra.
He LOVES his books and no matter how late it is, will always get at least one story. Relatives are sometimes surprised by words he comes out with, but I can always locate them back to particular books.

One story each in this house (DD 5, DS 3). Even had to read one to DD last night although we had just arrived home from holiday at 12.30am As someone else said I don't think she would go to sleep with out one.
As for cabin bed, I sit up at the top of the ladder and DD arranges herself so she can see the book and snuggle up with me - lovely