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\"oh<\/a>at last … I’ve made it out into my glorious office and photographed the OHbaby! mag which houses my article about Technoference.\u00a0 Oh, friends and gentlegeeks, if money (and courage!) were limitless I’d rush off to Rome for the World Infant Mental Health Congress in May next year.\u00a0 Just to hear Jenny Radesky and her “Digital Media in the Dyad<\/a>” prez.\u00a0 Swoon!<\/p>\n

But alas … I’m neither rich enough NOR am I sufficiently brave.\u00a0 Travel often feels pretty daunting.\u00a0 I managed a trip to Canada last year,<\/a> communing with other disciples of the Gospel according to Bruce.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

But a foreign language, another whole continent away?\u00a0 For a New Zealander to even think about Rome you’d have to pad it with ages either side, to justify the costs.\u00a0 Both the monetary expense and the time.\u00a0 Uproot the whole family for a good month.\u00a0 Spend as much as it’s going to cost to fix the laundry\/kitchen conundrum.<\/p>\n

Too much, too soon for this geek.<\/p>\n

Ah … a wise local recently reminded me: for everything there is a season, etc.<\/p>\n

For today, I’ll stay home with an ailing teen and tend to some office time.<\/p>\n

First … may I share some links?<\/p>\n

I’ll start with some light reading for the nerdily inclined … a paper published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.\u00a0 It’s by Jenny Radesky and others<\/a>, and then an awesome longread article by the Guardian about smartphone addiction <\/a>… the dude who invented the “Like” button and his peers all send their kids to schools without screens.<\/p>\n

Mark my bloody words:\u00a0 To learn to think creatively enough to be able to build such immensely complex and innovative things as iPads and apps and pull-down refresh functions. … you gotta have a childhood full of relational richness and hands-on play.\u00a0 Nature and sunshine and eye contact.\u00a0 Opportunities to lose yourself in discovery and enjoyment.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile … what are we like?<\/a><\/p>\n

What are we actually like<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Honestly, I could go on all day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Between the angsting about technoference\u00a0<\/a>(think of the children!<\/a>\u00a0 And not just to sell stuff to them<\/a>!)\u00a0 and the all the coveting I’ve been doing (WANT<\/a> and WANT<\/a>) I’ve barely had time for much else.\u00a0 School holidays are over, of course, which changes things a bit.<\/p>\n

Speaking of schools, there’s been another conversation about teaching values\/life skills (dare I say it!\u00a0 Social and emotional intelligence stuff!) in the classroom.\u00a0 I’m kinda all for it, but remind us all that amazing things like Roots of Empathy<\/a>, and the Nurture Groups<\/a>, and other cool things exist.\u00a0 We can call on existing ideas with evidence based results.\u00a0 We can do better than dodgy posture<\/a> and other forms of self harm<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0We can find ways to heal.<\/p>\n

We bloody well ought to.\u00a0 Digital focus, my eye.<\/p>\n

Life, eh!\u00a0 \u00a0What, ho!\u00a0 What a ride.<\/p>\n

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at last … I’ve made it out into my glorious office and photographed the OHbaby! mag which houses my article about Technoference.\u00a0 Oh, friends and gentlegeeks, if money (and courage!) were limitless I’d rush off to Rome for the World … 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":[29,15,25,14,10,2,19,5,11,18,22,7,21,20,28,31,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"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=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}