I think the “bribery” is great! Better to bribe them to read God’s word (or listen to you read it), than not hear it at all.

My little girl is just shy of 3 - so chocolate serves well at the moment instead of money. And even then we don’t have to bribe every time. We’re focusing on the narrative type sections of scripture first (Genesis & Gospels) as they are more story like for her. So we mix it up a bit, some normal stories, some scripture and then we pray.

We also take her through “The Children’s Catechism” which is a simplified Shorter Cat’. She’s up to question 9 or 10 - What is God! and we make a huge deal when she learns one of the questions - so in that instance “praise” is the bribe and it works well as a motivator.

Charles ‘Tremendous’ Jones in his book, “Life is Tremendous”, mentions paying his son to read per page (I think). It’s a great way to develop a habit and hopefully a love for reading - esp God’s Word.

But the example of the parent and the application through prayer is probably the real best point.

Thanks for the encouragement Sandy!

Good article.
I’m reading the bible with my eldest 2 children.  We started at Luke (at the eldests suggestion) and have moved onto Acts. Your article has inspired me not to stop at the end of Acts but to try and get through the whole bible (and so what if it takes a few years).
The reason we started is that my eldest (in 2nd class) has to read something each night as part of his “homework”. We read other books and then he asked if we could read the bible. It has the advantage also of being the only book we have two copies of,  so my eldest can read from his copy while I follow in my copy, and he can do the same while I read.