Do You Read Bedtime Stories to Your Kids, Royal Oak?

This article was written by Leslie Ellis.

A new study finds only one in three parents reads bedtime stories with their children every night.

The statistic was among the data released earlier this month from a survey commissioned by Reading Is Fundamental and Macy's to launch the annual Be Book Smart campaign from June 21 to July 21 to support children's literacy.

The response to a query on the Royal Oak Patch Facebook page about whether parents read to their kids on a nightly basis was a resounding yes.

• Crystal DeLeon: Yes! Every night.
• Devon Sterk: Please keep reading to your kids every night! Being 24, I appreciate it so much now that my parents read to me each night.
• Alex Rucinski: Yes and no. Some night we read stories on others we make up a story together.
• Jeanne Brady Lebnick: My son is almost 9 and he still wants to be read to every night! We do on most nights, other times he reads himself.
• Sherryl Wolak DiFalco: Our girls are 9 and 7 so now we read them chapter books. Usually one chapter per night. It is our special family time together and all 4 of us pile into bed together to read!
• Edward Hessell: Every night. Our 3-year-old loves going to the library to pick them out. Our 1-year-old not so much.
  
  

The nationwide survey of more than 1,000 parents with children age 8 or younger conducted in April by Harris Interactive for RIF and Macy's also found the following.

• Eighty-seven percent of parents read bedtime stories to their children, although not necessarily on a nightly basis.
• Fifty percent of parents say their children spend more time with television or video games than with books.
• Twice as many children prefer a printed book (20 percent) over an e-book (9 percent), say parents who read both types of books to their children.
• Children who don't read well by the end of the third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school than proficient readers, according to a report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Click here for more information about the Be Book Smart campaign.