Kia Ora, ladies and gentlegeeks<\/p>\n
It’s been a while since I came and geeked out over here and shared some links (aka cleared some tabs) and it’s a joy and a privilege to have a moment to do just that!<\/p>\n
Small one due home from school in a jiff and I will switch from office brain to domesticity. But for now I want to pause and breathe in and out together, perhaps grounding through all four corners of the feet and rolling the shoulders.\u00a0 AMEN!<\/p>\n
And then I wanna say … mate it’s hard sometimes.\u00a0 So much of the news is bad and the threats are real. The wisdom of what to do to protect ourselves (and provide an umbrella for others) can be increasingly hard to tune into when we are surrounded by outrage machines.<\/p>\n
YA KNOW?<\/p>\n
Oh, Nature, we need you<\/a>!<\/p>\n Oh, attention span, I miss you<\/a>!<\/p>\n Oh, movement! I love you!<\/a><\/p>\n Anyway, busy time for this geek, learning heaps of new bits as I try and get a study through an ethics committee (my first go). Also attempting to wrestle a literature review into submission.\u00a0 Winning, but JUST. Lots of family stuff too, of course. And if you’re planting with the lunar cycles (and why wouldn’t you, I’d like to know? Might as well, right?) then this forthcoming weekend is the time to get your seeds started under cover.\u00a0 Well, if you live near Canterbury, NZ.<\/p>\n Why don’t we do a link dump now, my friends, and I will see you on the flip side.<\/p>\n Let’s start with something from Business Inside<\/a>r (I love a diverse perspective!) on evidence Apple shareholders used to show smartphones are addictive for kids. While we’re talking about kids and phones (which I do an awful lot of, these days.\u00a0 JEEZ I’M BORING) here is something from Wait til 8th (from US … as in 8th grade aka kiwi year 10 aka 14 years old … they promote waiting till that age till parents get their kids a smartphone) ANYWAY here’s something from them about screen use in schools.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0And here’s a pretty great opinion piece about screens in schools.<\/a><\/p>\n OK, one more screen site: this is a list reason of physics-based reasons that too much screen stuff is bad for us, from Fair Observer\u00a0<\/a>AND this is a piece about an important bit of legislation in coming up for discussion in the US, to make infinite scrolling and autoplay not the default setting anymore.<\/a>\u00a0 Sorry if that sentence didn’t make sense.\u00a0 School bus is here gotta go<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Back.\u00a0 Nearly done with screeniac links. THIS<\/a> is from Scientific American, and it’s about rebuilding social media to support empathy. They’ll need to read this manifesto from the Center (Centre!) for Humane Tech, about avoiding human downgrading.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n THIS from the Conversation is about the need for diversity in children’s books<\/a>,\u00a0 and speaking of books, here is a piece encouraging paper not screen<\/a>, and enjoy this webinar from our pals at the Children’s Screen Time Action Network … it’s about reading aloud.<\/a>\u00a0 Hooray.\u00a0 I absolutely get how getting your kid comfy listening to stories on the iPad while you get a meal going can feel like a win, but imagine a world where you could consistently BE the iPad in that scenario!\u00a0 I miss curling up with warm little kids and reading them stories.\u00a0 I think that my dearth of snuggly reading means I must be outta whack.\u00a0 I blame the literature review.\u00a0 And the excessive amounts of pine pollen in my atmosphere!<\/p>\n See what I mean about the attention span?\u00a0 Where was I?<\/p>\n Here is a cool thing from Scientific American about babies’ sense of justice<\/a>, and speaking of justice, won’t you please sign this petition<\/a>. Then, as dessert, check out these gems from my man Rick Hansen, to lower stress.<\/a>\u00a0Oh, and speaking of dessert! How gross is this marketing of diets to children<\/a>? NO Thank you.<\/p>\n Now I’m stressed out again and I’ll just head back to Rick Hansen for some deep dreaths and inner smiles.<\/p>\n Arohanui,\u00a0 y’all x x x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kia Ora, ladies and gentlegeeks It’s been a while since I came and geeked out over here and shared some links (aka cleared some tabs) and it’s a joy and a privilege to have a moment to do just that! … Continue reading