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\"Photo<\/a>Kia Ora e hoa ma,<\/p>\n

This picture shows me holding a few of the books I’m kinda simultaneously reading.\u00a0 How’s the attentional bandwith, you may ask?\u00a0 Yeah, well you oughta see my piles of papers … and the electronic files all over my desktop (the ones awaiting printing!).\u00a0 Does your brain ever feel itchy with the awareness of it all?\u00a0 At least I have the blessed luxury of this website as a place to clean up the jumble of my tabs!\u00a0 Let’s do that now, eh?<\/p>\n

First, a comprehensive report from our cousins across the Tasman, about the first 1000 days<\/a> and the opportunities for investment, support.\u00a0 Brought to my attention by the good peeps at ARACY: the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth.\u00a0 Kia Ora!<\/p>\n

Next, a few links about early childhood education.\u00a0 This is a report<\/a>\u00a0emphasising the importance of ECE\u00a0from a financial perspective, here are a few goodies from the awesome Evolutionary Parenting website<\/a> (ECE as allocare … when it’s done well, I say “hell, yeah!”), and here is a piece about play based learning in Nova Scotia, Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now … this is a small but important piece about the problems with using food as a play material<\/a>\u00a0in ECE settings.\u00a0 I’ve had this debate – I distinctly remember a training in San Diego, CA, in about 1999, where I explained that kiwi early childhood teachers hadn’t been using food in play since I could remember.\u00a0 And friends, I trained in the early 90’s, not yesterday.\u00a0 BUT… full disclosure: I have never been able to reconcile my effortless acceptance of removing rice\/pasta etc from collage areas AND my deep, abiding love of play dough<\/a>.\u00a0 I am a work in progress.\u00a0 \u00a0Speaking of food: random link here from Harvard Medical School: new findings in praise of broccoli<\/a>.\u00a0 Yum!<\/p>\n

Now, some links about play … here is an article from the New York Times about the adventure playgrounds<\/a> that seem to be coming back into vogue (right on!) … reminds me of the one I long to visit in Tokyo, featured in the book Savage Park <\/a>(which I devoured).\u00a0 Whilst on the topic of adventurous play, the NY Times article references some research done here in NZ, and you can read about it HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, while we are thinking about international research … this piece from the awesome Conversation website is about talking to babies all over the world,<\/a> and included the shocking stat that 95% of the world’s developmental science research is done on only 5% of the world’s populations.\u00a0 Holy ding dong!<\/p>\n

Now, from Psychology Today … it’s about letting toddlers help<\/a>.\u00a0 While we are talking about toddlers, I humbly share a piece I wrote a few years back for my pals at OHbaby! mag<\/a>.\u00a0 I adore toddlers and will defend them, always.<\/p>\n

Hey … I talked about the Evolutionary Parenting<\/a> website back there?\u00a0 Here is a link so you can listen to her founder, Tracy Cassels, interviewed by Australian breastfeeding advocate, Pinky McKay<\/a>.\u00a0 I seriously rate Pinky, I just wish she didn’t encourage mums to include their phones and tv remotes in their breastfeeding support package, alongside their water bottles and (awesomely named) boobie bikkies<\/a>. What’s my beef?\u00a0 I insist that we must all\u00a0Beware the still face of parental phone use!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

For now, I am going to hurl a slew of tech related links at you, then do some non-computer stuff my damn self!\u00a0 <\/a>My shoulders insist<\/a>!\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Right ho, so this is a piece I wrote for the fine folk at Tots to Teens<\/a>, here is a piece from the Guardian about how people’s lives have changed since they got phones for their kids<\/a> (the good, the bad …) and here are a bunch of links to reports from the 5rights peeps<\/a> in the UK.\u00a0 I was wowed by their “Disrupted Childhood” report, about persuasive tech.\u00a0 And now (irony!) I want to stay online and read all the others!<\/p>\n

THIS is a good read, from Forbes, about the push toward ‘personalized learning’<\/a> (ie, tech in classrooms) and here is something about tech in the home from a dad’s point of view, from the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> .\u00a0While we’re thinking of dads, here are some interesting findings about paternity leave in Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What else?\u00a0 A cry for more time being barefoot<\/a>, some interesting findings from Australia about elitism, sexism, and the size of your school’s sport’s fields<\/a>, and just because it’s been ages since I linked to the Talaris Institute and they’re awesome … check out these language links<\/a>.\u00a0 Speaking of language(!!), with thanks to the Distinguished Professor who shared this blog (Discussion is the Food of Chiefs)<\/a>, enjoy.<\/p>\n

Getting harder to type now, cos my fingers are crossed … why?\u00a0 Because I’m sincerely hoping the Wellbeing Budget<\/a> will bear awesome fruit.\u00a0 Now gird your loins as you read this li’l something from the Spinoff about the problems with Plunket’s founder<\/a>.\u00a0 Now, I adore Plunket as a supporter of families in NZ, but I don’t think it hurts to acknowledge that historical figures are flawed, and for contemporary biographies to describe more than one side of a person.<\/p>\n

I don’t wish to end this post on such a downer note, so instead, here is an inspiring snack<\/a>\u00a0(I’m obsessed with that stuff!), an item I covet shamelessly<\/a>, and finally …\u00a0\u00a0a lovely guided meditation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blessed be the geeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kia Ora e hoa ma, This picture shows me holding a few of the books I’m kinda simultaneously reading.\u00a0 How’s the attentional bandwith, you may ask?\u00a0 Yeah, well you oughta see my piles of papers … and the electronic files … 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":[29,25,9,14,2,5,6,23,17,11,18,8,22,7,21,20,31,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}