{"id":153,"date":"2014-02-02T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-12-18T10:52:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T22:52:51","slug":"mothers-children-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"mothers, children, families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I recorded some podcasts with my friend &amp; colleague, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainwave.org.nz\/about-us\/our-people\/presenters\/nathan-mikaere-wallis\/\">Nathan Mikaere-Wallis<\/a>.\u00a0 They will be hosted by our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familytimes.co.nz\/\">Family Times magazine<\/a> and will be live in about ten days.\u00a0 I completely, publicly forgot the referencing info for all this deluxe temperament research, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.age-of-the-sage.org\/psychology\/chess_thomas_birch.html\">here is my atonement.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there is chaos and unrest in the Ukraine.\u00a0 I wonder if any of you geeky friends were moved to tears by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cshZDIjIeK4\">video of the &#8220;Send In the Mamas&#8221; protest<\/a>?\u00a0 Kind of reminds me of that story about Jimmy Carter getting stalled peace talks going again by having participants share family photos.\u00a0 But I can&#8217;t find a reference for this story so there is a chance that I have made it up.<\/p>\n<p>I have also been inspired by the extra-curricular work of the AWESOME children&#8217;s entertainer, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oacQL7UQtlk\">musician known as Raffi<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 He has founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.childhonouring.org\/\">the Centre for Child Honouring<\/a>, and you can learn about it by following that link back there.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of links for the brainiacs: one is brand-spanking from the journal Pediatrics &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/pediatrics.aappublications.org\/content\/133\/2\/312.abstract\">here is the abstract <\/a>describing interventions to improve cortisol regulation in children (Dr. Jack <a href=\"http:\/\/developingchild.harvard.edu\/index.php\/faculty_and_staff\/center_director_and_staff\/\">Shonkoff<\/a> is listed as an author, so it&#8217;s gotta be good), AND t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/01\/life-as-a-nonviolent-psychopath\/282271\/\">his is an interview<\/a> with neuroscientist James Fallon, whose brain scan suggests that he shares brain patterning with psychopaths.\u00a0 Good times!<\/p>\n<p>As always, I&#8217;d love to share more.\u00a0 As always, the real-life demands of my real-life family must trump all else.\u00a0 Arohanui xx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I recorded some podcasts with my friend &amp; colleague, Nathan Mikaere-Wallis.\u00a0 They will be hosted by our friends at Family Times magazine and will be live in about ten days.\u00a0 I completely, publicly forgot the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,18,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}