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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother and I read all of the books on my mandatory summer reading list aloud to each other (taking turns) the summer before I started 9th grade.  Honestly, those are some of my fondest memories.  My mother was only going to get me started but got engrossed in the books and stayed with me until we finished each and every book.  We'd read on side by side lounge chairs outside or lying side-by-side on my bed.

I'm smiling now thinking about that summer!  My mother passed away soon after that so it really sticks out in my mind as a great bonding experience.  [/quote]

What a lovely memory.

I still read aloud occasionally to my teen and tween. My tween often has trouble finding books he's interested in, so I frequently start reading a chapter or two to him to get him interested, and then he usually takes over from there. Other times, I read to him from an anthology of sports articles from the New Yorker or from other more "adult" works that I think benefit from discussion.

My teen loves to be read to, although we don't have as much time to read together as we used to. I read to him from the New Yorker and the newspaper on weekend mornings if we have time, when I come across something I think he would be enjoy. (He reads the paper on his own most days.) We have read plays aloud and once this past year we took turns reading a book he was assigned in school that he truly despised and was having trouble getting through. I think reading it together he was able to find more to appreciate about it.

My kids think I'm a terrific reader, though, so maybe that's why they like me to read to them. I do accents, different voices for different characters, etc. They tell me I could narrate audio books (which, actually, I would love to do, lol). I can't for the life of me think why someone would be critical of reading aloud. It can be a way for families to spend time together and entertain one another, no different from playing a game, etc. In fact, families used to read aloud all the time, until the radio came along. If you don't think it's weird to watch movies with your kids, why would it be weird to read to them? [/quote]

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