Kia Ora lovelies,
\nHow wonderful to have tipped over into shortening nights and lengthening days.\u00a0 It still may be flipping freezing, but I’m grateful for the reminder that all is impermanent.<\/p>\n
First link of the day: “Your Undivided Attention” … it’s\u00a0<\/a>an excellent new podcast from the Center for Humane Tech.<\/a>\u00a0 It has me all a-flutter thinking about design solutions to support us mere humans in undoing the manipulation of our poor li’l vulnerable minds as we attempt to take control of our device use.<\/p>\n Which we’d better get serious about: lifetime users are changing their skeletons.\u00a0 Horn-like growths<\/a>\u00a0on our spines?\u00a0 Yeah, all this tech is not a benign habit. Especially for kids<\/a>.\u00a0 Oh, and\u00a0\u00a0here’s what the Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute reckon …<\/a>\u00a0Meanwhile,\u00a0closer to (my!) home, I was privileged to see a powerful talk about digital addiction by a wise professor at the UC Child Wellbeing Symposium<\/a> a couple of weeks back.\u00a0 Koia kei a koe!<\/p>\n Just quietly, I’d\u00a0 have liked other speakers to have considered the concepts of this essay<\/a>\u00a0… now, I’m a fool for some neuroscience, but let’s never forget that we are more than our brains… we are also sensory beings, feeling creatures: with bodies and bellies<\/a> and reciprocal relationships.<\/p>\n ANYWAY … More locals doing important work can be found HERE, at the website of the Sensible Screen Use group<\/a>… they are all about shaking up the new normal that exists in so many classrooms in NZ.\u00a0 I wonder if they’ve read Screen Schooled<\/a>?\u00a0 Other useful thoughts about shaking up the norm in classrooms can be found here, in this write up of the work of a neurologist turned classroom teacher.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Here is a lil’ something about the myth of the perfect mother<\/a> (something I’ve written about elsewhere …<\/a>) and this is from Rick Hansen (LOVE!), it’s about taking care of dads<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is an interesting finding about the link between adverse childhood experiences and the onset of puberty<\/a>, and I end with a glorious bit of counsel about having conversations about positive parenting<\/a>, it’s from the most excellent Canadian Paediatric Society.\u00a0 Merci!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kia Ora lovelies, How wonderful to have tipped over into shortening nights and lengthening days.\u00a0 It still may be flipping freezing, but I’m grateful for the reminder that all is impermanent. First link of the day: “Your Undivided Attention” … … Continue reading