Parents are increasingly disinterested in reading to their kids — and it's majorly hurting the young ones' literacy skills down the line.

In interviews with The Guardian, childhood literacy experts expressed concerns about shrinking rates of at-home reading, which occurs as the prevalence of so-called "screen time," or time using tablets or smartphones, balloons ever higher.

Spencer Russell, a Texas-based former elementary school teacher turned literacy coach and influencer, told the website that gen Z-aged parents, or those born after 1997, particularly seem to have difficulty reading to their kids — perhaps because they were raised on such screens themselves.

"I don’t think we can divorce the role of technology influencing gen Z parents and their kids with the decline in reading out l

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