{"id":67995,"date":"2019-08-19T08:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T12:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67995"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:59:49","slug":"not-easy-being-a-parent-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/08\/19\/not-easy-being-a-parent-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Not easy being a parent these days…"},"content":{"rendered":"

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nAfter reviewing the item below — and after trying to limit the screen time of our youngest daughter these days — I am again reflecting on how difficult it is to raise kids today. I’m not going to get on the technology bashing train, but I’m just going to say that — at least in this area of life — my parents had it much easier!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It’s not easy to cut off the kids’ access to the Internet these days…as the article below illustrates!<\/span><\/p>\n

Teen goes viral for tweeting from LG smart fridge after mom confiscates all electronics<\/strong> <\/a>— from cbsnews.com by Caitlin O’Kane<\/p>\n

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):<\/em><\/p>\n

Dorothy said she was boiling rice one night and was too preoccupied by her phone, so the stove burst into flames. “So my mom took all my tech so i’d pay more attention to my surroundings,” she said.<\/p>\n

Then she explained that both the DS and Wii<\/strong> <\/span>allow image share, so she could send images from those devices to Twitter, adding messages.<\/p>\n

Sometime after finding her DS, it was taken again, so Dorothy started tweeting from yet another connected device: her fridge.<\/span><\/strong> “My mom uses it to google recipes for baking so I just googled Twitter,” she told CBS News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From DSC: After reviewing the item below — and after trying to limit the screen time of our youngest daughter these days — I am again reflecting on how difficult it is to raise kids today. I’m not going to get on the technology bashing train, but I’m just going to say that — at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,178,55,46,560,309,248,480,66,460,195,1,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-generational-differences","category-internet","category-k-12-related","category-parents-guardians","category-platforms","category-relationships","category-society","category-student-related","category-technology-general","category-tools","category-uncategorized","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67996,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67995\/revisions\/67996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}