With new technological advancements, smartphones, laptops, and television, there are many distractions that take young students and children away from reading and learning. A way to decrease the problem would be to decrease screen time and spend time in the classroom or at home reading as a group or alone. Instead of a flat out cost, it would take …show more content…
It is also time that they can spend with their classmates and family. They can be together doing an activity that will promote education. Reading together as a family and as a class is helpful for children learning to read because they can follow along with who is reading. They get to spend time together that engages the mind and not in front of a screen, which promotes laziness. In a classroom, it can help students calm down after being rambunctious. Children’s stories can help teach students and children about morals that are difficult to understand for youth, like love or death, that are depicted in stories like Aesop's Fables.
If children always spend their time learning about morals, they get a chance to experience and struggle with morals. As a result of reading, solitary reading has the ability to promote social shyness or awkwardness. Reading alone for many hours isolates children and creates difficulties in socializing as children. Children are supposed to be social and active in their youth. When children read, they are not running around and making friends. It makes it more difficult for children to make friends if they are not used to