Bedtime

Hei ! I am trying to read a book at night but he is just not interested, during the day he does like me to read for him ! But in the night it’s kind of habit , bath -pjs-milk and he is falling asleep in 5-10 minutes ! Don’t be harsh on yourself!

My daughter doesn't want anything to do with books or songs at bedtime. She wants to brush her teeth and go to bed. She even pushes me away when I try to sing. Some kids just aren't interested. We sing and read during the day instead. Don't take it personally and don't be hard on yourself. Maybe when he gets older he'll want that at bedtime.

try not to feel guilty, it took a good amount of time to get my daughter to be interested in sitting and listening. but now she enjoys bedtime book reading since we made it part of our routine some helpful tips to start out slowly: 1) choose books that include current words or objects they use and enjoy. they’ll be interested in books that have you make sounds best kind are vehicles , insects and animals we started with plenty eric carle books and we got hand me downs so we found our favorites and rotate nightly 2) grab 2-3 and ask them to point to which one they want to read , honestly let them chunk the other one to the side or chunk it when the book is over, my girl enjoys finishing the book and i allow her to flip the last page, grab the book and chunk it to the side to read the next. 3) being 33 weeks pregnant i’m sure you’re out of breathe when just talking, have your partner or any family member be apart of the moment and have them help read 4) when reading, pretend you’re

a librarian and use the excitement and pauses they would use to read to a group of kids. also try to get them hooked to listening by surprising them (startling them), underlining as you read, and pauses to let them read the last easy word of the sentence. my girl is learning new words this way. her top favorite book is Dr.Seuss ABC we read about 3-4 books a night when she’s not overly tired

I’m 28 weeks pregnant and my toddler much rather hold the book and flip through it alone. Very rarely does he let me read him a book and the whole book at that. I can make get 3 pages before he rips it from my hands and gets a different one and just does it over and over

I don't read to my son at night. We watch his favorite music videos (he's currently big into David Archuleta 😅) and snuggle while he drinks his bottle and brushes his teeth. Then I take him to bed and snuggle him, and sometimes he wants to be a little silly and wants me to tickle him. Or he wants to "talk", and especially because he has a speech delay, I don't want to discourage his best talking time. Sometimes I wonder if I'm not instilling the best bedtime habits in him, but it's hard because that's our best bonding time, both of our happy place, and we BOTH love it so much! We try to read during the day, but he doesn't really have the attention span for me to actually read him a book at night. Music and snuggles are his love languages, and it's pretty relaxing for me too (unless he's being very picky about his song choices and I can't guess the right ones lol)

You can read to him at any time - not just bedtime. Also make up stories. Whilst I’m dressing her for bed I tell her about a dog called Pebbles who likes playing splashing… it happened to be his birthday last week 🤭

I don't read my daughter a book! We change her diaper/into pajamas, hold her for a bit and then put her down. She'll look through books during the day but doesn't have the attention span to sit through us reading one. Don't feel bad mama!