It doesn't have to stop! We have been reading Lord of the Rings to my 8 and 10 year old before bed for months now. We read for 10-15 minutes, then they read the

It doesn't have to stop! We have been reading Lord of the Rings to my 8 and 10 year old before bed for months now. We read for 10-15 minutes, then they read their own books for a while. They still love the time together. Our 12 year old is definitely too cool for it now, though :-). I agree otherwise. We've got a nice little library of children's books, and no one to read them to now. I still recite Goodnight Moon and Very Hungry Caterpillar from memory from time to time, like when we start reading LoTR. "So, last time Merry and Pippen had been captured by orcs... 'In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf'" always gets a laugh.