Digital Smarts - What Happens To Your Kid’s Language Skills When You Check Your Phone

It may not come as a surprise that research shows the quality of conversational interactions you have with your child is more important than the quantity of words they hear as they develop their language skills. Researchers also say that when you stop a conversation with your kids to check your phone, you break the ability for this very important back and forth learning interaction to happen.  Researchers also say this formation of language skills can help predict the course of a child’s future when he or she starts the formal schooling process.