Actually... I had sort of forgotten until just reading the latest posts, but for my second D -- I read to her at bedtime every night until she was about 15. smile She often read before we did our reading, but that was the closure for the night. As I mentioned before, she still did some flashlight reading, but that kind of "broke the spell" of the current book she was reading to herself and got it put down at bedtime. And it was really great bonding time for us, too.