The Dangers of Distracted Parenting

An essay in The Atlantic’s July/August 2018 issue by Erika Christakis, an early-childhood educator and author of The Importance of Being Little. The magazine’s own summary: when it comes to children’s development, parents should worry less about kids’ screen time and more about their own.

Christakis argues that the overlooked problem with smartphones is not the screen-obsessed child but the tuned-out parent. Parents today spend more time with their children than parents in the 1960s did, but more of that time is physically present and emotionally absent.

Kyle saved it to his reading list under Parenting, in the same cluster as The Self-Driven Child and The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, both of which argue that the quality of a child’s relationships is what shapes development.

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