Reintroducing reading to a toddler hooked on screens

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When I opened the gates to screen time for my two-year-old daughter, I was planning to limit it to airplanes and sick days.

But with TV and tablets came a whole new colourful world that hooked my tot instantly, and her new word – “cartoons!” – became a constant refrain. Almost overnight, her obsession with books and our sweet ritual of reading became a distant memory to her little toddler brain.