{"id":4746,"date":"2013-04-01T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/2.0\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2013-04-01T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:47:07","slug":"kids-bored-give-them-an-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/kids-bored-give-them-an-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Bored? Give Them an iPad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A really important <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/31\/disruptions-what-does-a-tablet-do-to-the-childs-mind\/\">NY Times article<\/a> about the influence of excessive technology use on children, in this case, using iPhones and iPads to placate kids when they get bored or cranky.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read my take on it, read my post\u00a0about what I call <a href=\"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/2.0\/parenting\/parentingtechnology-iphone-the-latest-in-parental-expediency\/\"><em>iPhone Syndrome<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/04\/01\/technology\/01bits-disrupt\/01bits-disrupt-tmagArticle.jpg\" alt=\"Spending time with devices instead of interacting with people may hinder communication skills, researchers say.\" width=\"414\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really important NY Times article about the influence of excessive technology use on children, in this case, using iPhones and iPads to placate kids when they get bored or cranky. If you want to read my take on it, read my post\u00a0about what I call iPhone Syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1525],"tags":[296,41,298,294,64],"class_list":["post-4746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-boredom","tag-children","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-parents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}