{"id":85244,"date":"2026-02-19T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85244"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:01:17","slug":"nearly-a-third-of-kids-cant-use-books-when-starting-school-and-try-to-swipe-them-like-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/nearly-a-third-of-kids-cant-use-books-when-starting-school-and-try-to-swipe-them-like-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly a third of kids can&#8217;t use books when starting school &#8211; and try to swipe them like phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1UHH4u.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=685&amp;y=213&amp;s=181&amp;d=181\" alt=\"Nearly all parents said they would like to see national guidance on making sure their child is school ready. File image: iStock\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Almost a third of children who started reception last year were not able to use books correctly, sometimes even trying to swipe or tap them like a smartphone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/nearly-a-third-of-kids-can-t-use-books-when-starting-school-and-try-to-swipe-them-like-phones\/ar-AA1UHAl8?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6ce7b1262aaa4b4bdb878a118a78ab12&amp;cvpid=a66608a5dff54a21b3cd46072061402c&amp;ei=14\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Almost a third of children who started reception last year were not able to use books correctly, sometimes even trying to swipe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/child-screen-2.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85245,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85244\/revisions\/85245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}