{"id":372,"date":"2015-12-10T16:15:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T04:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=372"},"modified":"2015-12-10T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T04:15:31","slug":"joyful-jumbled-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"joyful, jumbled times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oh<\/a>Geeks ahoy! \u00a0Here is a picture featuring the newest issue of OHbaby!. \u00a0In there is an article I wrote, remember? \u00a0‘Bout School Readiness? \u00a0I’m proud of it.<\/p>\n

Also featured in the picture is my right foot. \u00a0Have we ever talked about nail polish strategies? \u00a0For me, a busy and overthink-y mind benefits greatly by being able to gaze down away from the troubles of injustice and inequality and the grief of our time, and just bask in one of the frivolous joys of our time. \u00a0Now and then, anyway.<\/p>\n

Quick handful of quality links here, friends, then I’m off to organise dins for the whanau.<\/p>\n

Here is a luscious and supremely simple summary of research from Scientific American, it’s called How to be a Better Parent<\/a>. \u00a0Enjoy.<\/p>\n

While you’re being a better parent, you could avoid buying web based toys for your kidlets. \u00a0Here is a piece from the Guardian <\/a>to impress upon you why. \u00a0Another interesting take on kids and tech is to be found here, in this Opinion piece from the Washington Post, written by a teacher. \u00a0It’s called\u00a0I gave my students iPads \u2014 then wished I could take them back<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Just for fun, here’s a summary of brain development basics<\/a> from the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, and I end with a link to a PodCast covering an uber important topic … how to communicate about early childhood development with folks who don’t share our backgrounds. \u00a0Here comes a gift from Liz’s Early Learning Spot. <\/a>\u00a0Season’s Greetings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geeks ahoy! \u00a0Here is a picture featuring the newest issue of OHbaby!. \u00a0In there is an article I wrote, remember? \u00a0‘Bout School Readiness? \u00a0I’m proud of it. Also featured in the picture is my right foot. \u00a0Have we ever talked … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,25,5,18,7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}