Kia Ora ladies and gentlegeeks,<\/p>\n
If you are in NZ, I hope the school hols are treating you kindly.\u00a0 Today has been a great day for a warm fire, baking and puzzles.\u00a0 Soon I shall get serious about creating a delicious dinner for my crew.\u00a0 Till then, I gotta lotta quality links to share.<\/p>\n
Shall we?<\/p>\n
First, I’m a little into the whole notion of Technology Shabbats<\/a>, brainchild of Tiffany Shlain.\u00a0 I heard about them via promotion for\u00a0the upcoming webinar<\/a> from the Children’s Screen Time Action Network<\/a>.\u00a0 Those webinars tend to be pretty awesome.<\/p>\n There are a great many reasons to try something like a tech shabbat, to declare yourself a member of the resistance.\u00a0 We are part of a mass experiment and our brains are changing as a result<\/a>\u00a0…. or should we say, our brains are being changed.\u00a0 There is something intentional<\/a> and manipulative at play, although many will deny it.\u00a0 Like Google<\/a>.\u00a0 Jeez, Google. You do WHAT?\u00a0 Profit from pedophiles with your crazy recommendations and asymmetric algorithms?\u00a0 Taste the shame.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n What to do?\u00a0 If you’re New York rich, you might hire a coach<\/a> to help raise phone-free kids,\u00a0 which would be lovely, because all sorts of suboptimal outcomes are associated with too much tech … like these things in this blog post<\/a> by Rae Pica, and read about\u00a0diminishing physical skills<\/a>\u00a0in that there Australian article.\u00a0 Pals, tech insiders don’t use the stuff<\/a> like we’ve been coerced to.\u00a0 Children are being predated on by the tech companies<\/a> as well as the weirdos on their platforms.<\/p>\n Sigh.\u00a0 Too much tech gets in the way of lots of other important things that children need to do.\u00a0 They have WORK to do (they need “love, attention and plenty of free time”<\/a>), if they are to be allowed to be thought “ready for school”<\/a> at the appropriate age.\u00a0 They gotta figure out how to make sense of emotion<\/a>, they need adults helping them to process trauma<\/a>\u00a0before it gets lodged in their bodies<\/a>, and they gotta climb trees<\/a>.<\/p>\n I mean, we all gotta get outside more<\/a>, preferably to dig in the dirt<\/a>.\u00a0 We are going to have to continue to raise a little hell, like this mama in Maryland <\/a>who I salute from afar as she advocates for saner screen use in her school.\u00a0 Put books in all waiting rooms!!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kia Ora ladies and gentlegeeks, If you are in NZ, I hope the school hols are treating you kindly.\u00a0 Today has been a great day for a warm fire, baking and puzzles.\u00a0 Soon I shall get serious about creating a … Continue reading