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Darlings, I can scarcely believe we are 3 days from Christmas already. I have not written this blog since flippin’ September, I keep hoping I’ll be ready for a relaunch\/reconfigure\/resomething but then I keep being busy with all the other things and not getting it done. So I delay, and delay, and here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SInce September I have been concentrating on PhD stuff, namely a systemic literature<\/a> review, <\/a>which gobbled up most of October and all of November, part of December. It’s in a reasonable second draft form as I put everything to bed for Summer hols. Which I am loving. So much festive food prep,<\/a> and not done yet<\/a> …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, but early in December I was lucky enough to be invited to a private zoom meeting with the exceptional Stephen Porges<\/a>. I took my questions about the physiological and psychological impacts of parental smartphone use in the presence of infants<\/a>, and he both confirmed my findings (my fears!) and offered his customary wise, calm reassurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It would all help if we had codes of ethics f<\/a>or designers that encouraged people to think about children (won’t somebody please think of the children!!?!) as they design for tech. That previous link is a goodie about design, as is THIS link to calm tech<\/a> … and here is a reminder of why we need such things – a piece from Fairplay (formerly the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood) about the nefarious lengths Facebook will go to to deceive <\/a>young users. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m increasingly obsessed with older accounts of our interactions with tech – check this out, from 1969, asking whether tech can be humane<\/a>. Sometimes people are so prescient and on to it … other times they get things all higgledy piggledy – like this piece that describes how futurists could foresee self-driving cars, but not women in the workplace<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Really, I think that’s what is at play in my corner of the world – people are so unused to thinking about the unique developmental needs of infants that they just have a big ol’ baby-shaped blind spot in their thinking about all manner of issues.<\/a> I will keep working to shine a light and to change hearts and minds<\/a>, but this will require tenacity, grit, and a self-care strategy<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is advice from A Mighty Girl about how to get beyond admiring little girls’ looks <\/a>when you interact with them over the holidays. I get it – I love a frock and a ribboned hairdo – but let’s not let girls think that this is all we admire about them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And for the love of God, don’t let your daughters <\/a>get instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My Christmas wish for everyone is that you will get to share family stories. Storytelling is a joy and a resource, as confirmed by this piece from Scientific American<\/a> and as I reference this, may I offer a belated honouring of one of NZ’s storytelling treasures, RIP LIz Miller.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, how about some delights to end? THIS Is an amazing hot wheels racetrack<\/a> that took an entire month to set up, and here is an awesome corner of the internet called Real LIfe magazine<\/a>, this is smart writing from a young thinker, this piece is about logging off<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Which I will do, for the day, right about … NOW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n xxxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m talking about this website, but I could be talking about myself …? Darlings, I can scarcely believe we are 3 days from Christmas already. I have not written this blog since flippin’ September, I keep hoping I’ll be ready … Continue reading