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My 8-year old son can read fairly well on his own, but he still likes for me to read to him at night. I'm inlined to think he's a little too old, but I also value that time before bed. How old was your kid when you stopped reading to them?
elleng
(130,156 posts)still read them interesting stuff, and they're 26 and 29. Seems like your son wants to maintain the experience/relationship/tradition with you, and I would value it.
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)when they were the age of your son, they would pick a book and we would alternate reading pages to each other. That way, they improved their reading skills and we still had the time to spend together.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)And finally for several years we snuggled and read together silently, each of us with our own book.
That stopped with the onset of the teenage years of course. They never stopped reading but it was always upstairs with the door closed!
Now that they're all grown up (26 and 17) and we don't have teevee, its our family way that we all hang around reading together either in the the living room with the wood stove during the cold months or out on the screened in porch during the warm months.
Enjoy that snuggle time! Its sooo precious.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)My son (13) reads on his own a lot (currently reading the 3rd Game of Thrones book), but there are some books we like to read together, like series we started together or other stories we like to share.
My daughter (11) isn't as prolific a reader as her brother, and she reads much more slowly. She really likes it when I read longer, more complicated books with her, and I like it because we can talk about the books as we go. Right now we're on a Fairy Tale kick, so I'm reading her some Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson stories (we have about half a dozen fairy tale books to get through).
To me, time spent together - especially at bedtime - is pure gold.
I think you should keep reading to your kid as long as he lets you.
mcar
(42,210 posts)9 for the younger. He got impatient at the pace and took over on his own. The 4 th Harry Potter, I believe.
Keep reading to him as long as he'll accept it. It passes much too quickly.
surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)... because high school meant too much homework to have the time for it any more.
We all really enjoyed "book time", and had transitioned from picture books, to chapter books, to young adult books, to adult "classics" and science fiction. We read Shakespeare, Dickens, Asimov, and all sorts of other things.