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    Quasi un terzo dei bambini non riesce a usare i libri quando iniziano la scuola e cerca di usarli come se fossero telefoni

    https://news.sky.com/story/nearly-a-third-of-kids-cant-use-books-when-starting-school-and-try-to-swipe-them-like-phones-13497398

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    1. psnow85 on

      More worrying is that one in four is not toilet trained. Pathetic, the parents need a visit from social services.

    2. vaivai22 on

      It may sound alarmist, but we have absolutely seen a decline in life skills in the past decade and the consequences could be dire.

      While there seems to be a change brewing, it will come too late for an alarming number of children.

    3. Barraco_Barmer on

      I think this calls for more screen time for newborns 

    4. According-Secret9516 on

      How many homes have books which are accessible for children?

      I could read before I went to school . Back then we had books in the home but we were poor and the bookshelf wasn’t well stocked.

      Nowadays, books are quite expensive but everyone has a phone.

      Children often have tablets and can read from them.

      Reading is a skill. What is more important is oracy and this is being killed by the online space.

    5. SbisasCostlyTurnover on

      Bit confused by this. The article doesn’t actually appear to expand on the headlines claim that these kids can’t ‘use a book’.

      Like..what does that mean? I’d imagine most pre-school kids can’t read, that’s normal right? The swiping and taping thing? Anecdotal.

      As for the find that 1/4 kids occasionally has a toilet based accident in reception class…is that also not to be somewhat expected?

      I’m a parent. I know I’m far from perfect, but this article just stinks of slightly alarmist thinking. We could and should be doing better by our children, absolutely…but this article ain’t it.

    6. ChaBeezy on

      Why don’t we cut benefits to parents like this? Seriously, you’re getting child benefits to look after your kid, if they’re not toilet trained you’ve not looked after them.

    7. willNffcUk on

      My sister works in a school in Leeds. I always thought she was joking when she was sharing stories like this

    8. mao_was_right on

      Puts into perpective the reports of a third of schoolkids classified as SEN.

    9. Single_Classroom_448 on

      That’s a real shame actually, I was quite fond of reading as a kid. I really liked puffin books, can’t remember why but they were a lot of fun. I then really enjoyed the crappy like “beast quest” books that you could buy in WHSmiths at around the age of like 8-11 or so.

      Now I’ve got an ereader and you do simply swipe to read, though I don’t use it for reading english books

    10. Practical-Purchase-9 on

      I’ve caught myself once or twice trying to drag/zoom a picture in a book. It’s absent-minded more than me not knowing how to read.

    12. tradandtea123 on

      I’m 47 and tried to swipe a small TV screen the other day, so it’s not just young people who are stupid.

    13. NoAvocadoMeSad on

      What? My kids have more than an unhealthy amount of screen time, I bought him his first phone at 3… When he started school not only did he not try and swipe a book.. he could read very basic words by sounding them out like “cat, net and big” and of course knew the sound of each letter by sight.

      How on earth do you fuck up so badly as a parent they are trying to swipe a book at 4 years old?

    14. LycanIndarys on

      >In an annual survey of primary school staff by early years charity Kindred Squared, teachers estimated 26% of the children in their reception class this year were having frequent toilet mishaps, rising to more than one in three (36%) in the North East.

      I wonder how they’re defining this – accidents are still pretty common at that age, aren’t they? Particularly for when they first start, and it’s a new environment with new people.

      It’s an interesting topic to me, because toilet-training is something that we’re *really* struggling with my son at the moment. He’s 4, and will be starting school in September, and we’re of course determined to make sure he’s ready by then; but it feels like every time we take a step forwards, something happens and we reset again.

      He’s pretty good with his weeing, but we’re still having far too many poo accidents for my liking – and it’s not helped by the fact that every time we ask him about it, his response is “I didn’t know it was coming”, so it’s difficult to get him to understand that when he feels he needs to go, he actually has to. And I’m riding a very fine line between needing to tell him off because he’s not paying attention to his body, and not scaring him into regressing (because he *really* doesn’t like being told off, and bursts into tears at even a hint of criticism).

      >Staff also report around 28% of children started school unable to eat and drink independently.

      I’d say that this is actually more of a concern?

    15. IamlostlikeZoroIs on

      Would be interesting to see the families backgrounds for these children.

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