Three-quarters of parents too busy to read bedtime stories

Mums claim they are distracted by cleaning or cooking while dads blame late nights in the office or sheer tiredness when they do get home.

The stats emerged in a study of 2,000 parents was carried out by CITV to launch their new children's show Bookaboo, which highlights the pleasures of books.

Worryingly, it also emerged only three per cent of fathers now find the time to read to the kids compared to 89 per cent of mothers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/4839894/Three-quarters-of-parents-too-busy-to-read-bedtime-stories.html

This is all about parenting skills or lack of them.
If you cannot find the time to bring your children up correctly,and reading to them is part of that - don't have them.

i read to my little lad, well he reads to me he loves the same car book and likes just to turn pages and shout green car, red car, soooo cute, but its the quality time together i love about it

glad your doing that we use to read to all you kids

i cant read to emma yet, shes too young, each time i try she turns the pages and generally messes about with the book

jay was like that, only been able to sit him down still for last 2 weeks, before he used to bounce up and run round and tear pages, but he got hang of it now, got it all to come again with logan lol

emma loves books, looks at them for ages, but you just cant read one to her, she even takes one to bed and sleeps on it

Mine are like that. They will sit there for ages with you reading them in the day but in the evening they seem to fall asleep minutes after their tea at 6pm. I have to cook earlier now just so that I can get them in the bath. There's not a lot of chance to read to them after that.

My 3 year old will listen to you read but my 2 year old just points, fiddles and generally talks over me while I am reading. lol

AC

arwww lol, cute