{"id":186,"date":"2014-05-02T13:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T01:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=186"},"modified":"2014-12-18T10:51:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T22:51:53","slug":"next-week-we-go-screen-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"next week we go screen free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/profilepic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-187\" alt=\"profilepic\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/profilepic-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/profilepic-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/profilepic-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/profilepic.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Kia Ora geeks. \u00a0Getting ready to turn off, here. \u00a0Husband is unenthusiastic as can be. \u00a0Big Girl is a little better. \u00a0Baby Girl will be deceived into thinking TV is broken. \u00a0She&#8217;s two.<\/p>\n<p>A family&#8217;s prep for screen free week is described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studerteam.blogspot.co.nz\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/mental-wealth\/201404\/screen-free-week-is-just-around-the-corner\">this is from Psychology Today<\/a> &#8211; some brain benefits of unplugging are included.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re into Screen-Free Week or not, I reckon you will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truceteachers.org\/guides.htm\">DIG these fab resources<\/a> from the excellent organisation known as TRUCE (Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children&#8217;s Entertainment).<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re at it, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumersinternational.org\/news-and-media\/news\/2014\/04\/advertising-to-children-now-technically-illegal-in-brazil\/\">great news from Brazil<\/a>, where it is now illegal to market directly to children, and look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenyoushouldknow.net\/little-girl-1981-lego-ad-grown-shes-got-something-say\/\">this primo follow up<\/a> on the 1981 LEGO ad.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-495909\/Pushy-parents-pressurise-5s-read-risk-causing-long-term-damage.html\">Lillian Katz is still raising consciousness<\/a> about childrens&#8217; early learning, this time cautioning against attempting to teach children to read too young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kia Ora geeks. \u00a0Getting ready to turn off, here. \u00a0Husband is unenthusiastic as can be. \u00a0Big Girl is a little better. \u00a0Baby Girl will be deceived into thinking TV is broken. \u00a0She&#8217;s two. A family&#8217;s prep for screen free week &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=186\">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":[25,5,11,18,7,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}