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In Born Reading, Jason Boog offers concrete tips on how to get better at reading — and using technology — with your child.
Remember that viral video of a 1-year-old trying to read a magazine like an iPad? Both funny and slightly horrifying, it gave us a glimpse of the strange, touchscreen-influenced way our digital-native kids may perceive the world. Recently, as my nine-month-old has become ever more aware of the world around her, I’ve been curious to hand her my iPad and see what she’d do.
Instead, I’m holding out and sticking to board books:
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time before age two, and damn it; while I’ve broken every other parenting resolution I made, I want to stick to that one.
And I’m extra-inspired to do so thanks in part to a new book, Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age — From Picture Books to Ebooks and Everything in Between, by former GalleyCat editor Jason Boog (Simon & Schuster, US$15.99).
Boog embraces the ways that kids can learn and become better readers through technology. But he also lays out a strong case for reading print books to your child from babyhood on, and backs it up with both evidence from experts and anecdotal experience from his own daughter, Olive.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time before age two, and damn it; while I’ve broken every other parenting resolution I made, I want to stick to that one.
And I’m extra-inspired to do so thanks in part to a new book, Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age — From Picture Books to Ebooks and Everything in Between, by former GalleyCat editor Jason Boog (Simon & Schuster, US$15.99).
Boog embraces the ways that kids can learn and become better readers through technology. But he also lays out a strong case for reading print books to your child from babyhood on, and backs it up with both evidence from experts and anecdotal experience from his own daughter, Olive.
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