Do cell phones distract us from interacting with our kids?
UD professor Roberta Golinkoff publishes new study on the influence of cell phones on parent-child interactions.
Over the last several years, many researchers in early childhood education have focused on the amount of screen time that children receive each day and how it may affect their learning or development. But, what about the amount of time that a parent or caregiver spends in front of a screen while playing with a child? How might a parent’s distraction by a cell phone affect a child’s learning? (more…)