Kia ora darlings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Temperatures make a gal say BRRRRR, but the power of love<\/a> oughta keep her warm. Full disclosure: I am typing this with a heater blowing on my toes and a scarf wrapped around my head and neck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have so very many links to share, today: first up is something I worked on with Kate Barber for Family Times, aiming to give sensible ad<\/a>vice to parents in these bananas times<\/a>. Hopefully the impending Matariki celebrations in NZ<\/a> (new year, really!) will shift the bananas flavour of things. Redemption. Repair. Renewal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next, something I wrote years ago, <\/a>about<\/a> new parenthood<\/a>, and another oldie-but-goodie is in this list of past articles from Ng\u0101 Tau Tuatahi<\/a>. Where are they all? I might have to scan\/post, like it’s the olden days. Speaking of the olden days: remember THIS, from North and South<\/a>? JEEZ it caused ripples at the time. Yup, I’m quoted in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now let’s change gears: please enjoy this bit of tragi-comedy from McSweeneys<\/a>. Satire so apt it hurts me. (PS: MUMS RULE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next: an excellent blog post about “making the internet small again<\/a>” and here now is the blog of the incomparable Pasco Fearon<\/a>, who will encourage you to think about child development. Another awesome child development blog here = the laughing baby<\/a>. And howzabout this … a lovely resource for new parents<\/a>, from the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Forgive me if I’ve shared this before, but it’s important: this is research exploring the impacts of starting one’s life during the COVID 19 pandemic. How are babies doing<\/a>? Speaking of COVID, this is good, from Scientific American<\/a>, about weighing up risks, and here is a link to the World Health Organisation’s COVID <\/a>data-o-rama. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Similarly, I don’t know if I have shared this before either, but it’s bloody fascinating. The human Screenome project<\/a>. Sheesh is the word!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nearly there … a responsible tech jobs board<\/a> … and you might need a new job because I’m about to wind out this post with a bunch of coveting … a book about the design of childhood<\/a> (the untold story of blocks! Yes!) some BEAUTIFUL M\u0101ori and Pasifika toys from It Takes a Village<\/a>, an oldie but a goodie textbook from Oxford University Press<\/a> and some beautiful downloadable bits and pieces from Flow Magazine (we miss you). <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally: we can now buy environmentally sensible bean bag fillers in NZ<\/a> (mine have arrived and await the messy filling bit – if you live in Chch they’ll fill ’em for you in their warehouse AND there is a new Nick Mulvey album<\/a> GET EXCITED x x x <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kia ora darlings, Temperatures make a gal say BRRRRR, but the power of love oughta keep her warm. Full disclosure: I am typing this with a heater blowing on my toes and a scarf wrapped around my head and neck. … Continue reading