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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents interact with children using digital devices such as smartphones and tablets, but the character of those interactions has not been described well.
Researchers video-recorded 37 parent-child dyads while each parent read a print book, a basic tablet-based book, and an enhanced tablet-based book (with interactive features) sequentially with their 24- to 36-month-old child. The order of books varied randomly among dyads. The frequency of control behaviors (child closing or grabbing the book, child or parent pivoting away), intrusive behaviors (child or parent pushing the other's hand away from the book), and solitary space-making by the child was determined for each type of book.
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