Storytime struggle at bed! Any tips! HELP!!!!!!!!

Okay mamas ! So Im literally starting to despise story time (I know who says that 😂), so my son sleeps w/ a bunch of stuffed animals/characters which is fine w/ me but when we’re reading stories I have to keep asking him to pay attention he literally sings and plays w/ them and is completely distracted and it didn’t used to be that way, he has a million books so he couldn’t be tired of them and I let him pick the book each night and usually we read two but it’s like he paid more attention when he was first turning 3 now it’s h#ll bc I’m trying not to fuss at him and then when I say okay story time is over if he won’t listen at all he throws a whole fit and screams and cries bc he claims he wants to read and it happens every single night and has been for about the last month is anybody else experiencing this ? I don’t think I’m a boring reader lol I use diff voices I’m excited we point out diff things in the book we even pretend eat if they are in the book I think it’s good but I just don’t understand! I was thinking of taking all his stuffies out of the bed and then after we read maybe we can put them into bed and maybe that’ll help bc then he won’t really have a distraction any tips any help lol storyline used to feel so special but it’s totally a pain now literally laying here w/ a headache bc he just finished screaming bc he wanted to read a story again 😭😂
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I normally do story time before my son goes potty/washes up and brushes his teeth for the night. So it’s just me or his dad reading without distractions. Then he goes off to bed.

@Destiny do you guys have like a specific reading chair or area that’s not the bed ?

So we do it out in the living room on the couch. I used to do it in his bed but it felt like he didn’t pay attention as much.

@Destiny thank you! We’ll try that tomorrow ! We have a rocking chair that we sit in sometimes together hopefully it will work! But we also just put up our Christmas tree on Saturday so i pray that’s not too distracting lol he’s been super obsessed w/ it ! But the chair is on the other side of the room

Yeah we switched it after Christmas last year ourselves so once we get our tree will be the real test lol

@Destiny lol indeed! We’ll definitely try it tomorrow ! If I remember I’ll send an update response ! Hopefully it goes well! We’ve been going to tell the tree night night lol so maybe it’ll all workout ! Like okay we’ll read out here say night night to the tree off to the bathroom for potty and brushing and bed ! Sounds smooth lol!

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