{"id":600,"date":"2018-02-13T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T03:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=600"},"modified":"2018-02-13T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T03:32:22","slug":"joy-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"joy.  ease."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kia Ora geeks.<\/p>\n<p>Those are my words du semain &#8230; the concepts I&#8217;m looking for in decisions great and small.\u00a0 How do I increase joy?\u00a0 And can I find ease in this?\u00a0 Amazing what it does to a day.<\/p>\n<p>I will increase joy if I can share some links with y&#8217;all before cooking a nutritious dinner for my peeps.\u00a0 So here they come &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2016\/06\/the-complex-lives-of-babies\/487679\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Atlantic, an article about the complex lives of babies<\/a>.\u00a0 Blank slates they are not!\u00a0 Next, <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2018\/02\/achtung-baby-by-sara-zaske-reviewed.html\" target=\"_blank\">from Slate, a review of a book which encourages parents to consider a more German method of parenting<\/a> (ie, let them roam!).\u00a0 I appreciate that the review acknowledges the conundrum for folk who consider a parenting method which sits well outside of their own cultural norms.\u00a0 Ouchie.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/afternoons\/audio\/2018630774\/the-science-of-perfect-timing\" target=\"_blank\">20 minute interview from RNZ National&#8217;s Jessie Mulligan, about the science of perfect timing<\/a>.\u00a0 INTERESTING.\u00a0 And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/sep\/25\/board-games-back-tabletop-gaming-boom-pandemic-flash-point\" target=\"_blank\">HOORAY for the rise of the ol&#8217; fashioned board game!<\/a>\u00a0 I&#8217;m in!<\/p>\n<p>This is cool, from <a href=\"https:\/\/hms.harvard.edu\/news\/nature-meet-nurture?utm_source=Silverpop&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=s3&amp;utm_content=2.12.18.HMS\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Medical School.\u00a0 &#8220;Nature, meet nurture!&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And an excellent perspective from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/02\/well\/family\/teenagers-stop-asking-for-nude-photos.html\" target=\"_blank\">the NY Times about teens and sexuality and pressure and sexism<\/a> and the need to talk to both boys and girls, instead of just holding the girls responsible.\u00a0 It&#8217;d be easier for girls to resist sending nude pictures if boys didn&#8217;t ask in the first place!\u00a0 Right on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kia Ora geeks. Those are my words du semain &#8230; the concepts I&#8217;m looking for in decisions great and small.\u00a0 How do I increase joy?\u00a0 And can I find ease in this?\u00a0 Amazing what it does to a day. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=600\">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":[29,25,14,2,19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}