Greg and I have always LOVED to read in bed before going to sleep. It's the most relaxing part of the day! (I remember when I was a child and Mom would say how she LOVED going to bed and lying there reading; I'm sure I could grasp the love-of-reading part, but I remember just being perplexed that anyone would lood FORWARD to bedtime! Well, now that I'M the mom, all that's changed! I GET it!!)
Logan too (our 9-yr-old) has loved to read since he started, and is a very good reader for his age -- whipping through "chapter books" in no time flat. Last summer, we introduced to him the joy of reading late in bed. When he had no need to be up early the next morning, we started allowing him to read in bed pretty much as late as he wanted. He loves it!
Then, a couple months ago, when Gabe was making every excuse in the book to delay bedtime one night, I figured maybe he truly wasn't tired. So I said, "OK, if you're not tired, you may sit in your chair [the armchair in his room where we sit and read bedtime stories] and look at books until you're sleepy. Then you turn off the lamp and get into bed." I thought it would last maybe 5 minutes; it lasted, as I recall, pretty close to an hour!
Some nights it works better than others (as you might expect from a 3-year-old). And often he doesn't do what he did that first night and get HIMSELF into bed, but calls us to spread out his blanket, etc. all over again. But that's OK. I'm just tickled pink that, at such a young age, he has discovered the joy of books and of enjoying them as a means to settle down to be ready for sleep!
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