{"id":123,"date":"2004-08-04T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2004-08-04T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T20:59:52","slug":"parents-ponder-techs-place-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/04\/parents-ponder-techs-place-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents ponder tech&#8217;s place for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/\">News-Journal Online<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There&#8217;s no shortage of sites and software aimed at very young kids and even toddlers. Noggin.com has games and virtual coloring books for preschoolers. A Crayola licensee makes handheld video games, including one where youngsters race in a crayon-shaped car, for 3 and up. KidzMouse Inc. makes computer mice for small hands.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s growing debate over whether children should be exposed to technology so early. Some parents and scholars see no benefit, and a handful even warn of a hindrance to child development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mental ability is gained from manipulating the three-dimensional world at that age and (from) managing your own mind and not having it managed by an electronic machine,&#8221; said Jane M. Healy, author of &#8220;Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children&#8217;s Mind.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/Business\/Headlines\/03BusinessBIZ02TECH080304.htm\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News-Journal Online reports: There&#8217;s no shortage of sites and software aimed at very young kids and even toddlers. Noggin.com has games and virtual coloring books for preschoolers. A Crayola licensee makes handheld video games,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}