If my kids are reading, they can stay up late. If they’re reading, I will unload the dishes or do whatever else it was I was about to have them do. My girl reads 1,000 books a day. The boy not as much but still quite a bit.
My kids would have preferred you over me.;) I didn’t let them skip chores.
One thing that I have found gets kids interested is to read them the book or story that was transformed almost beyond recognition by the movie industry (take Pinocchio or Bambi, for instance).
When you get to the part where Pinocchio....well, I won’t spoil what happens within the first 20 pages. :-)
I wish you were my dad!
I was and am a voracious reader, but I always had to get books in between the chores. And staying up late to read books? He would come down if he figured out that the lights were still on.