When do you stop reading to your kids? What age?

[Anonymous]

I'm 45 years old and my dad hasn't stopped reading to me yet. Admittedly, we've gotten pretty far off from daily bedtime stories, but I still enjoy those moments when he calls me up to read some interesting something he just read in a book.

I have a teenager, and although we never, or mostly never, read aloud to each other, we do frequently read the same book at the same time, or one right after the other. That gives us lots to talk about.

[Anonymous]

My four year old still has a bed time story, but since he started reading HE reads it to ME. He also reads in bed for a while (out loud which makes me laugh). I hope this goes on for a lot longer because I like being read to and having down time with him.

[Anonymous]

Don't stop until they ask. My mom read to me until I was about 12. And I was a voracious reader on my own. And until we got too tired because our 6 month DD my husband and I would occasionally read each other bedtime stories. Instead we read them to her.

[Anonymous]

Read to my kids until late elementary.

I read books that were well above their reading level, and fairly complex. They all became excellent readers and writers.

We read for a while out loud before bed, and then they would read to themselves in bed. It helped that our three older ones are VERY close in age, and the two younger ones are as well. So I could aloud to read to them in groups.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD is 8 and has been reading at night herself for about a year. I read to her occasionally. But I think it's important she reads to herself now.

Can you explain why? Do you mean to help her become a more independent reader?
How about if your kid reads to herself in addition to you both reading together?

We just don't get enough time ... dinner, music practice, homework, bath, reading, bed. So usually DD reads to herself. Maybe once a month I read a more 'advanced' book to her. I say it's important because I want her to love reading for her own enjoyment and when time is limited, that wins out. I only say that because she is a very good reader. If she didn't like to read or was struggling, it would be a different story (I'd read to her more often).

Makes sense. Thanks for the response.

[Anonymous]

DD is 10 and we read to her every night. Often it's in the middle of a chapter that she'll interrupt me and just start to chat about something that happened that day. While I value the reading we do with her and think it's important, I think the door it opens to whatever's been on her mind is equally important. We will read to her as long as she allows it. Actually, probably for several months after she's trying to kick us out of her room and rolling her eyes at us in impatience.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the kid.
My oldest asked me to stop when he was in kindergarten. My current second grader gets upset if I'm on a business trip and we don't read our nightly chapter.

[Anonymous]

Around 5. As soon as she could read on her own .I hate reading out loud.