Print Newspapers and How to Instill a Love of Reading
Hint: No screens for children. July 18, 2023 9:59 am ET Reading the newspaper. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto I agree entirely with Danielle Shapiro’s defense of print newspapers “The Sabbath and the Printed Page” (Houses of Worship, July 7). So many major events became known to me through the print newspaper. I think of reading about the election of President John F. Kennedy over Richard Nixon and of the day after 9/11, when I sat on the bus and everyone was buried in the paper, reading the terrible details. The print newspaper is needed not only on the Jewish Sabbath, but the rest of the week as well. My extended family doesn’t allow children any screen use at all. Extreme? The problem is that screens become addictive and you lose the habit of reading books. Our children have no smartphones and they are all avid readers. They run outside to play with frie
Reading the newspaper.
Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto
I agree entirely with Danielle Shapiro’s defense of print newspapers “The Sabbath and the Printed Page” (Houses of Worship, July 7). So many major events became known to me through the print newspaper. I think of reading about the election of President John F. Kennedy over Richard Nixon and of the day after 9/11, when I sat on the bus and everyone was buried in the paper, reading the terrible details.
The print newspaper is needed not only on the Jewish Sabbath, but the rest of the week as well. My extended family doesn’t allow children any screen use at all. Extreme? The problem is that screens become addictive and you lose the habit of reading books. Our children have no smartphones and they are all avid readers. They run outside to play with friends. It is essential to make screens off-limits to children so they can develop a love of reading.
Eileen Pollock
Baltimore
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