{"id":570,"date":"2017-09-18T10:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=570"},"modified":"2017-09-18T10:52:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T22:52:31","slug":"nice-bit-o-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"letters to editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letter-editor-tall-e1505683580793.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-571\" alt=\"letter editor tall\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letter-editor-tall-e1505683580793-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Kia Ora friendly geeks,<\/p>\n<p>This picture is one I just snapped from the Letters to the Editor page of the latest Tots to Teens magazine. \u00a0I am delighted to report that the article those readers found useful was one that I created. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.totstoteens.co.nz\/behaviour\/hes-not-naughty-hes-just-tall\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read it here<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s a phenomenon I thought others would recognise, and LO! \u00a0IT is SO!<\/p>\n<p>We are more alike than we know. \u00a0The ways we are the same are so many more than the ways we differ. \u00a0Important to consider this week, as we slide toward election day in NZ. \u00a0It is no secret that I am a left-leaning, progressive liberal and this is the way I will vote. \u00a0No matter your politics, I just hope everyone who can vote, does. \u00a0Especially the women!<\/p>\n<p>A couple of links now &#8230; this is more of the stuff I&#8217;ve been sharing plenty of, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/04\/17\/474525392\/attention-students-put-your-laptops-away\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s about the benefits of hand writing notes. \u00a0Laptops away!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/education\/96590211\/golden-bay-school-faces-challenges-over-its-wifi-ban\" target=\"_blank\">And PRAISE BE for this wisdom &#8230; I love you Golden Bay!!<\/a>! \u00a0It is wise for schools to switch off WiFi at lunchtime. \u00a0People need to practice being the ADULTS to their teens. \u00a0Wiser, and Kind. \u00a0Because without intervention, young people may wind up like <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2012\/03\/digital-natives-are-slow-to-pi\" target=\"_blank\">THIS! \u00a0Thanks, Harvard Business Review, <\/a>for highlighting the impending epidemic that is the inability relate to other humans! \u00a0JEEZ, LOUISE!! \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1559-1816.2011.00790.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Anyone else worried??\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>T<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/education\/95872621\/Auckland-early-education-manager-warns-small-centres-dying-breed\" target=\"_blank\">his is an important article about a worrying trend in early childhood education<\/a> &#8211; the size of these centres is downright alarming and not conducive to quality!! \u00a0Interesting to j<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=11632287\">uxtapose that article with this one, about school readiness<\/a>. \u00a0Or not-readiness, as the case may be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlscouts.org\/en\/raising-girls\/happy-and-healthy\/happy\/stop-catcalling-girls-and-sexual-harassment.html\" target=\"_blank\">This is an awesome article from the Girl Scouts of America, about one of the ways that girlhood is sexualised prematurely and unnecessarily. \u00a0Catcalling.<\/a> Ugh. \u00a0I remember that happening to me when I was ridiculously young, and the shame I felt &#8230; even though I&#8217;d done nothing wrong &#8230; UGH! \u00a0I&#8217;d have been sub-11. \u00a0UGH!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kia Ora friendly geeks, This picture is one I just snapped from the Letters to the Editor page of the latest Tots to Teens magazine. \u00a0I am delighted to report that the article those readers found useful was one that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=570\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,25,14,2,5,18,7,30,31,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}