Hellooooo geeky whanau.<\/p>\n
Straight into it then … here is a fab article about babies from Psychology today<\/a> about babies.\u00a0 Eat it up!\u00a0 Share with your friends!\u00a0 Another bit of baby deliciousness is to be found in this resource from the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood.\u00a0 It’s a PDF<\/a> of ideas for supporting babies to entertain themselves screen-free.<\/p>\n What else?\u00a0 Brain scans show us that there are different ways of relating to numbers<\/a>, and also that fear makes our sense of smell more powerful<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is research<\/a> from the Journal of Neuroscience to suggest that the brain benefits of learning music last for a lifetime, and I humbly invite you to check out the podcasts<\/a> that Nathan<\/a> and I created for Family Times<\/a>.\u00a0 Check back often, k?<\/p>\n In other more personal news, since last I blogged I have submitted an article<\/a> (and made an editor tear up!\u00a0 Hurrah!), we’ve celebrated a birthday in my house (complete with triumphant cake icing session!) and enjoyed a magical noho marae<\/a> in a glorious bit of the country.<\/p>\n Next I await publication of my letter of the month (could I be more excited?) in Good magazine … I blogged about it here<\/a> … and I gotta get cracking in fulfilling my role as peer reviewer for the Southern Early Childhood Association<\/a>.\u00a0 Jeepers!\u00a0 Before I can do this, though, there is ANOTHER birthday in my house tomorrow, and a cake needs creating!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hellooooo geeky whanau. Straight into it then … here is a fab article about babies from Psychology today about babies.\u00a0 Eat it up!\u00a0 Share with your friends!\u00a0 Another bit of baby deliciousness is to be found in this resource from … Continue reading