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Mom, Dad, Grandparent, Sisters

I don’t remember too clearly, but I know my mother read bedtime stories to me. And most likely my grandmother when I stayed at her house, and my aunt when she was visiting. I remember some of the stories vividly, and found a number of the books that were read to me when I cleared out my parents’ house after my dad’s death. Unfortunately I had to throw out a lot of them because they had gotten moldy in storage.

I loved reading bedtime stories to my daughter so much that we went on for an hour or more, many nights. And it wasn’t always at bedtime. She’s always loved reading. In high school if she had a tough reading assignment she would sometimes read it out loud to *me,* and it somehow helped her understand it better.

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I have memories of being tucked in, but I have no memories of being told bedtime stories.

Yep - my Daddy!
He worked a lot of hours and sometimes it was the only time I’d see him all day.

Not that I remember. We read books to my son every night.

My grandma would occasionally read to me out of the same bedtime story book. It had several short stories.

Yup. It lasted a good amount of time. I do the same for my son, but we usually end up reading the Little Critter books or other such small books. We used to read him actually books but the wife and I would switch off and I never got to finish the story.

I don’t remember it (I don’t remember ANYTHING before I was 6 years old), but they must have, as I know all the fairy tales.

We read our kids Bible stories every night in their beds and said night prayers with them.

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My parents, as I and my wife read to ours.

My dad read them to me. I also read to my kids. Some pretty good nostalgia there.

Nope. I never let them, and preferred to read books myself.

My Mom, older sister, aunts

My dziadzia read me Grimm's fables.

Hey ! Looking at the results I was cheated!!!

I remember my father putting us to bed, and saying prayers. At Christmas time we would sing Christmas carols. My mother did read to me, but I can’t remember it being at bedtime.

I'm trying to find out if this is a thing of the past or still popular.

Yes, Mom told bedtime stories (usually from Grimm's fairy tales) to me, though my memory of the late 1960s is somewhat dim.