Does that work? I have an MP3 player I wear when I swim because swimming laps is boring, but have not been able to figure out how to put books on it. How do you put a Libby book on a MP3 player … ?

Thanks for sharing your evening routine, so helpful to see what everyone else is doing. My 3.5 year old is similar to your 4 year old in falling asleep around 9, probably mostly do to the afternoon nap she enjoys everyday at preschool. But, it’s actually ok, it’s easier to put all three of my daughter to bed together at 8:30 vs trying to get her to bed earlier on her own.

We instituted a few things at the start of this school year that are working (so far!):
1) Downtime & app limits: Set these in Apple Family
2) The rule that the kids have to read before bed. Doesn’t matter what (book, graphic novel, magazine…) or for how long, but it’s just the habit of reading before bed we are looking to embed in their routines
3) To encourage reading to supplant mindless scrolling, we are offering an “incentive” of a certain amount of $$ for every half hour of reading they log. I’ve never been a big fan of bribery, but hey, it’s a means to an end! It’s $$ we would have spent on them anyways, but this way they feel they’ve earned it. One of my girls already has enough to buy a shirt she’s been coveting (meaning she read 5.5 hours last week alone)

I just came down here to suggest a yoto player to – my nephews love theirs, although they are a little younger.

We have a cheap-y MP3 player which works really well for audiobooks. We use it with audible and Libby.

This is what we do too and have since the kids were young. The only downside is some of them now claim they need an audiobook to sleep. The other downside is that my now 14 yr old still won’t really read for fun, but he is the most avid audiobook listener so he has probably “read” much much more than other kids his age.

I love this idea of enforced in the room time. I have all older kids now and they tend to go to bed at the same time as I do and that can be hard.