Screen or paper — how do you handle story time?

My daughter is a story lover, and she’s been obsessed with her dad’s app. It generates custom AI stories that we read to her, so she always has something new. She loves being the main character alongside her favorite pups.

Still a work in progress but she’s already hooked! Curious what works for other moms 😊

Paper is better. Better comprehension, better retention, better reading skills.

I think they learn more from paper and easier on their eyes, more immersive with paper. I won't even use digital to read for myself, I despise it

I despise the thought of reading to my daughter off a tablet.

For us, reading at night has to be screen free; he’s already on his tablet or watching the TV for gaming and YouTube too much. I like the idea of the custom generation stories though!

I love reading to my kids but my oldest loves listening to Amazon audible at night

I won’t do electronics with bedtime it gets them too hyper. For daytime it would be okay.

There is nothing a computer could do with a story that would make me want to read it. Creativity from a human mind, lovingly written out, illustrated by another creative human brain and printed will be the only form of written storytelling I will consume - especially with my children.

This sounds very similar to an app I recently downloaded, however don’t use it as prefer a physical book. We ban screens an hour before bed so it seemed counter intuitive to then get my phone out to read a book.

Can we NOT use AI to create shit! It’s just AI slop. I would go back to the drawing board.

My daughter has a good selection of books and I like that she has her favourites that she chooses again and again. Whilst she might enjoy a custom story about her there are quite a few of those you can order a physical copy of online, or tbh I could write one myself (although the drawings would be shite haha). I don't see the benefit of having a different story every night, it just makes them seem disposable to me. Plus you don't get much diversity if every story is about the same person with the same perspective. I imagine some people would download and give it a try but probably lose interest to be honest, I don't see it being massive especially when there's a lot of focus on screen time, it seems a shame to even replace bedtime stories with a device! Maybe useful for children who don't particularly love having stories read to them- they might be more interested if they see themselves in it?

The light is bad for their eyes. If they can touch the book even better

AI plagiarizes from real artists and writers and destroys the environment on so many levels. The area I live in has the highest concentration of data centers in the world and watching forests and fields get bulldozed while our energy bills skyrocket is all so people can use apps to raise their kids instead of their own imaginations to build real bonds and connections while telling stories of their own makes me sick.

Book 1000%

It’s not like I have never sat with him watching the very hungry caterpillar on you tube or played guess that animal sound but it’s just NOT story time. Story time is in the chair together with a book in hand.