I didn't read to my son when he was younger. He didn't like to sit in my lap and be read to. He didn't like to be read to without sitting still either. Now he does and lately I've read him "Peter Pan", "My Fathers Dragon", "The Whipping Boy", "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory", and started to read "A Little Princess". My daughter has always liked to sit in my lap and let me read picture books. My son was willing to be taught (many things), but was willing to sit in my lap and read picture books to me before he started liking sitting in my lap and letting me read picture books to him.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar