Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Now that DD is 3, I feel like we should start reading her longer stories at bedtime. In the past, we've mostly bought books that have a sentence or two per page at most (like Fancy Nancy type books, just to give an example) but I think she would now get more out of slightly longer stories. It's part of DD's bedtime routine to get to choose 3 books for us to read before tucking her in. DH and I are always so tired at the end of a long day so three long-ish books (like the ones with a paragraph on each page) would be pretty exhausting and take probably a good 20-30 minutes. Add that to the other parts of DD's bedtime routine (bath, PJs, teeth brushing, lullabies, cuddling) and the bedtime could take an hour with these long books. So the choice is: continue with 3 slightly shorter, simpler books or change the routine and only allow her to choose one book, but it would be a longer, more "advanced" type book. She'd probably prefer the first option since it's more books, but I'm just curious what others are doing with their kids at this age.
On average, about 30 minutes a night.
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