{"id":346,"date":"2015-09-11T14:33:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T02:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=346"},"modified":"2015-10-21T06:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:08:12","slug":"in-my-letterbox-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"in my letterbox today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-on-2015-09-11-at-14.15-3-e1441937817374.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-345\" alt=\"Photo on 2015-09-11 at 14.15 #3\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-on-2015-09-11-at-14.15-3-e1441937817374-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-on-2015-09-11-at-14.15-3-e1441937817374-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-on-2015-09-11-at-14.15-3-e1441937817374.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>hooray! \u00a0With thanks to the Dora DVD my daughter (boss?) is watching, I am not only able to post this, but I even got to read the latest issue of OHbaby! magazine. \u00a0I wrote a piece in there. \u00a0It&#8217;s about temperament and I hope you find it helpful.<\/p>\n<p>First up today, friends, is a great link for motivating a bit of advocacy for children, here in NZ. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beststart.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is the website<\/a>\u00a0for Best Start, whose primary mission is about improving the quality of early childhood education. \u00a0Lord, we&#8217;ve been banging on about this for decades and we seem to be doing a backward slide &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationaotearoa.org.nz\/all-stories\/2014\/10\/1\/the-rise-and-rise-of-corporate-childcare.html\" target=\"_blank\">read this piece about the rise of corporate childcare<\/a> and see if you agree that a ruckus needs to be raised.<\/p>\n<p>Next, a couple of resources from Zero to Three, about school readiness. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/zerotothreepolicy.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">First a blog post <\/a>that will explain why a group whose concern is babies &amp; toddlers should have such insights into what being ready for school really means, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerotothree.org\/public-policy\/school-readiness-infographic.html?referrer=http:\/\/zerotothreepolicy.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is a dandy summary of research.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a little something from the Washington Post imploring us to allow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2015\/09\/01\/the-decline-of-play-in-preschoolers-and-the-rise-in-sensory-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\">more play for our kids <\/a>(another thing we&#8217;ve been banging on about since forever) and just for a little light reading for the weekend,(and cos Dora&#8217;s about to sing the song that tells me the episode is over &#8230; they did it &#8230;) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/internet\/main\/publishing.nsf\/Content\/9DA8CA21306FE6EDCA257E2700016945\/$File\/child2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here is a report from Australia<\/a> about the mental health of their children and adolescents. \u00a0Arohanui xxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hooray! \u00a0With thanks to the Dora DVD my daughter (boss?) is watching, I am not only able to post this, but I even got to read the latest issue of OHbaby! magazine. \u00a0I wrote a piece in there. \u00a0It&#8217;s about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=346\">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":[29,25,21,30,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}