Do your kids have a problem with SCREEN TIME? My dog might. Brave Parenting is a great website with tips, reminders, and articles about raising kids. Much of their content revolves around the dangers of our kids becoming TOO immersed in technology, the internet, and SCREENS in general.
I follow this page on Facebook (ironically)...
Here's a snipit from one of their articles titled "Your Brain on Books: 10 Incredible Benefits to Reading":
Benefit # 6 Greater focus It’s awesome that kids today don’t have to lug around huge backpacks full of 2 inch thick books for 7 or 8 classes. Now they read textbooks online – on their phones, school iPads or computers or on home devices. The move from bulky textbooks is good (for space saving and back breaking) but unfortunately there is a lot of research that suggests we don’t remember the information we read from a screen as well as we do from a book.Reading a book requires intentional focus. But we are such a distracted society, how do expect a kid to read a textbook on their phone when text messages/Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat updates are flashing on top of their text? Are you thinking it’s ironic you’re reading this on a computer right now?
I follow this page on Facebook (ironically)...
Here's a snipit from one of their articles titled "Your Brain on Books: 10 Incredible Benefits to Reading":
Benefit # 6 Greater focus It’s awesome that kids today don’t have to lug around huge backpacks full of 2 inch thick books for 7 or 8 classes. Now they read textbooks online – on their phones, school iPads or computers or on home devices. The move from bulky textbooks is good (for space saving and back breaking) but unfortunately there is a lot of research that suggests we don’t remember the information we read from a screen as well as we do from a book.Reading a book requires intentional focus. But we are such a distracted society, how do expect a kid to read a textbook on their phone when text messages/Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat updates are flashing on top of their text? Are you thinking it’s ironic you’re reading this on a computer right now?