{"id":755,"date":"2019-09-20T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T02:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=755"},"modified":"2019-09-20T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T02:11:27","slug":"be-careful-what-you-wish-for-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"be careful what you wish for, etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pic.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-756\" alt=\"pic\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pic-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Kia Ora lovely friends &amp; geeks,<\/p>\n<p>Here I am with the most recent issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohbaby.co.nz\/\">OHbaby!<\/a> and i must say I do think it is a particularly good issue and not just cos I wrote one of the articles in there.\u00a0 True story.<\/p>\n<p>Babies rule. Mamas are amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I am lucky enough to be living a life pretty darned close to 100% custom fit, suited to fit me.(I&#8217;m afraid that&#8217;s making me soft, but that is another story). Truly, it&#8217;s awesome. A testament to the power of hard work and little altars.<\/p>\n<p>If you had told my 25 year old self what life would look like in 20 years, I&#8217;d be pretty stoked.<\/p>\n<p>So I annoy myself with the tenacity and hypersensitivity of the ol&#8217; inner grizzle. My head is full &#8230; full of the next step in the research (so many unknowns! Growth and learning at a painful pace), full of presentations to come (conference for homebased caregivers tomorrow, Playcentre on Monday!) full of domesticity &amp; wh\u0101nau.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of wh\u0101nau, may I share some links?<\/p>\n<p>First up, please enjoy this lovely 2 min clip from the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University. <a href=\"https:\/\/developingchild.harvard.edu\/science\/key-concepts\/serve-and-return\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s about the concept of &#8220;serve and return<\/a>&#8220;, which is a way of explaining how interactions impact child development . I think about serve and return all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is one for all the<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/more-teens-are-dropping-maths-here-are-three-reasons-to-stick-with-it-119745\" target=\"_blank\"> mums of teens and fans of mathematics,\u00a0<\/a>this is a piece from the Guardian &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/06\/heres-how-you-can-parent-less-and-give-your-children-space-to-try-fail-and-grow-from-it\" target=\"_blank\">how to parent less<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Darn it &#8230; a crash just lost a good 2\/3 of my links!\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be back. Please bear with.<\/p>\n<p>Stand by, please caller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kia Ora lovely friends &amp; geeks, Here I am with the most recent issue of OHbaby! and i must say I do think it is a particularly good issue and not just cos I wrote one of the articles in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=755\">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":[15,7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"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=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}