A Twitter user shares a heart-melting observation about his eight-year-old’s habit of reading under the covers at night. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Abetting an Under-the-Cover Reader”
Here is one of my all-time favorite tweets ever. It’s from Robert McNeese, and he says,
Somehow I’ve lucked out and have an eight-year-old who thinks secretly reading under the covers past her bedtime is an act of rebellion, and it hasn’t yet occurred to her that her flashlights never seem to run out of batteries.
Oh, how wonderful that is.
Were you an after-hours reader when you were a kid, Martha?
I always had a Saturday morning book. I don’t think I ever was an after-hours reader.
Yeah, I totally was. I would spend many hours just rigging up different kinds of light bulbs to different kinds of batteries so that I could read in the bunk beds.
Oh, that just melted my heart. That’s lovely.
So he sneaks in there and replaces the batteries every once in a while.
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