Parents Who Read To Their Child On A Tablet End Up Having Less Interaction Together, New Study Finds

(CNN) — 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.
Parents who read to their child on a tablet, whether or not the digital book is interactive, had less social reciprocity — that is, give-and-take social interaction — than when they