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In 2009 a poll from Silentnight found that children prefer their Father’s to read to them at bedtime. 76 per cent of children surveyed said that they prefered their dad’s funny interpretations of bedtime stories, as opposed to the strict rules their mothers’ impose on bedtime reading.
85 per cent of mums admitted to only reading stories that they like to their children at night, tending to choose classics such as ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’ over Rhold Dahl’s thrillers ‘The Witches’ and ‘Matilda’.
The survey highlighted that not all parents read to their children every night. It found that parents in Kent read to their children the most, followed by Londoners. Parents read to their children least in Northern Ireland, with only 3 per cent of parents saying they reguarly gave their kids a bedtime story.