Kia Ora friends<\/p>\n
Sometimes family circumstances chew us up and spit us out. \u00a0As I pull rumpled bits of life back together, straighten them out like tin foil, I am grateful when they fit back together but open to the notion of rearranging the whole thing, altogether.<\/p>\n
Anyway: what I’m saying is, April slid through my fingers like water. \u00a0Much love and big ups to the warm and loving group of early childhood teachers I workshopped with in late April.<\/p>\n
A few links that have been on my mind and in my heart:<\/p>\n
This is about how we are manipulated as we move around the internet. \u00a0It’s written by someone who was a Design Ethicist for Google,<\/a> and is a magician. \u00a0Brilliant. \u00a0Important. \u00a0Makes me wonder why our children are being allowed internet technologies at school without being given information to allow them to critically think about the ways they’re being toyed with.<\/p>\n Because oh-ho-ho how they are being toyed with. \u00a0Did you see this? \u00a0About the leaked info demonstrating how cynical and uncaring Facebook <\/a>are in the way they use information about their users, including (especially?!) vulnerable youth.<\/p>\n Meanwhile: something positive and cool … next Tuesday this event<\/a> is being held at the Champion Centre<\/a>, thanks be to IMHAANZ<\/a>! \u00a0Can’t wait to get all up in Prof Jean Clinton’s <\/a>sphere of influence!<\/p>\n Other goodness: this from Taranaki <\/a>where their Circle of Security<\/a> programme is being expanded HURRAH! and in Minnesota there are doulas helping incarcerated mamas<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kia Ora friends Sometimes family circumstances chew us up and spit us out. \u00a0As I pull rumpled bits of life back together, straighten them out like tin foil, I am grateful when they fit back together but open to the … Continue reading