Parents who read to their child on a tablet end up having less interaction together, a new study finds

To maximize parent-child bonding, a new study says parents are better off reading to their children from a print book than from a tablet.

The joy of bedtime stories is twofold for parents: They can coax their children to sleep and use it as an excuse to snuggle up with their little ones. To maximize parent-child bonding, though, a study says parents are better off reading to their children from a print book than from a tablet.

5 super-cool tech products your kids will love this back-to-school season Researchers from the University of Michigan recorded 37 parent-child duos in a lab set up to look like a living room. Mothers and fathers would read aloud one print book, one tablet book and one interactive tablet book in a 75-minute period to their 2- to 3-year-old children.

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