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Practical parenting perspecive: Read them bedtime stories for 30 minutes or longer every evening. (I'm assuming your kids are still young enough for bedtime sto
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Practical parenting perspecive: Read them bedtime stories for 30 minutes or longer every evening. (I'm assuming your kids are still young enough for bedtime stories.)
And that's YOU. READ. Not some podcast or audiobook.
It's about time together. It's about you doing voices for the characters. It's about the low visual content of books that activates young imaginations. It's about reading longer books (when they're old enough to be ready for it, of course) that might take a month or longer to read so that they learn about delayed gratification, learn long-term continuity skills.
Banning tech from kids' lives altogether seems unnecessary and is probably impossible (though minimising it seems advisable!) but, above all, it's balance that's wanted.
- tlarkworthy 7y agoI don't hold books on the same pedestal, but extended together time I certainly do. Could be building Lego, using a computer, drawing, all of these things help with focus. I think constructive praise is critical too, so they feel the tangible benefits of putting time into a project. I actually think books are bad in this regard, there is nothing to praise at the end, though it does provoke thought. We switched to comics, they are able to handle much more complex story lines then.