Hour 2: Reading to/with Others

[Cynda]

Many of us have read or do read to/with others, including spouses, children, other family members, neighbors, students. What have you read to or with others?

I read to my now grown up son until he was 11. Sometimes I read a few chapters of a novel to him. I remember reading To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, Don Quixote (first part). I also read classic short stories illustrated for children. I remember particularly reading Edgar Allan Poe stories to him. Precious memories.

What's your story?

[Lynnette]

I had a boyfriend ages ago who used to read the newspaper to me. There was something very sexy about the whole thing. Still not sure why, but I still have fond memories of those times.

[Lena]

I can only think of my mom reading to me growing up and also the library had a Storytime program and the staff would read to us kids. I loved that as a kid!

[Stephanie]

There is a large age gap between me and my younger cousins (some are 20+ years younger than me) so I read books to them to entertain them at grandma's house. I would also read books to my babysitter's grandsons when I was young.

My favorite memories are from my dad reading bedtime stories to me every night.

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

I read to,my now grown, sons. Then they learned to read and had to read to me. My oldest son started kindergarten at the age of 4. I remember picking him up at school one day and he had a post it note stuck to his back. I asked him what it was and he said READ IT!!So I did. It said, "I can read the newspaper." So from that day forward he always read to me...books, the newspaper, whatever. My youngest son started reading at about the same age.

I know read to my grandsons. They both love books and like to be read to as well as try to read them back to me : )

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

My father would read books aloud to the whole family sometimes during my childhood. Maybe once every year or two he'd pick a book and we'd work through it over the course of a couple weeks.

I've read most the Chronicles of Narnia aloud to my husband, though we've started to find it's often easier to just listen to audio books together. We'll also read books more or less at the same time (Divergent, Red Rising... currently the first Expeditionary Force book) but I'm a faster reader, so it usually works best if he finds a book and recommends it to me when he's already part way through.😂