{"id":8,"date":"2004-07-28T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2004-07-28T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T21:46:00","slug":"debate-emerges-over-child-computer-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/28\/debate-emerges-over-child-computer-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate emerges over child computer use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalnow.com\/\">Journal Now<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There&#8217;s no shortage of sites and software aimed at very young kids and even toddlers.<\/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, the author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children&#8217;s Mind.<\/p>\n<p>Healy said that computers take children away from other developmental activities more appropriate for their brains and can &#8220;easily become a habit for both parent and child.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalnow.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&amp;c=MGArticle&amp;cid=1031776949739&amp;path=!business&amp;s=1037645507703\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal Now reports: There&#8217;s no shortage of sites and software aimed at very young kids and even toddlers. But there&#8217;s growing debate over whether children should be exposed to technology so early. Some parents&#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-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}