Less screen time and more reading for children
Arizona PBS has partnered up with First Things First for more than 10 years and it helps parents in the area be their child’s first and best teacher.
” The benefit then is that the families and the children get to know at the school and the school becomes a familiar place for these kids, ” said Kimberly Flack, the Associate General Manager of Education.
About 98 percent of children ages 1 to 8 years old live in a home that has a mobile device, according to PBS. Org.
Flack said that too much screen time could hurt a child’s development including communication.
” We want children to develop empathy and learn the appropriate eye contact and those things that happen within the non-verbal communication community that a screen does not provide, ” said Flack.
