{"id":13680,"date":"2011-05-16T20:55:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=13680"},"modified":"2018-12-23T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T06:26:08","slug":"parenting-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/05\/16\/parenting-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of colleagues and I were lunching this afternoon, and the lunch topic veered into the use of iPads as parenting tools. It was quite a funny conversation as we bounced around how the iPad is used as both incentive (\u201cIf you do well for this test paper, you will get one more hour with the iPad this weekend!\u201d), and disincentive (\u201cIf you make Daddy mad, no more iPad for you!!!\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve picked up a total of three paid Apps for Hannah so far, and boy \u2013 does she go through them real fast! She\u2019s nearly completely exhausted all the content in two of the kiddie educational game Apps already. All three Apps are from the same studio, and two of them are extensible \u2013 only thing is that I actually have to find the time first to create and record my own content first.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0451-dinner-pizza-hut\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0451-dinner-pizza-hut.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0451-dinner-pizza-hut\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armed with the fruit toy, parents can finally have a public meal in peace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0468-dinner-pizza-hut\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0468-dinner-pizza-hut.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0468-dinner-pizza-hut\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">She&#8217;s become quite the expert in finger flicking across the screen!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More pictures \u2013 thankfully non-iPad ones \u2013 and during Sunday brunch. =)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0470-sunday-brunch-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0470-sunday-brunch-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0470-sunday-brunch-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This picture is not an accurate representation. Normally, she makes a fuss and refuses to drink sufficient fluids.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0495-sunday-brunch-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0495-sunday-brunch-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP0495-sunday-brunch-flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This picture is not an accurate representation. Hannah stresses Mommy out on a daily basis!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of colleagues and I were lunching this afternoon, and the lunch topic veered into the use of iPads as parenting tools. It was quite a funny conversation as we bounced around how the iPad is used as both<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/05\/16\/parenting-tools\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Parenting Tools<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,16],"tags":[508,650],"class_list":["post-13680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","category-toys-technology","tag-e-pl2","tag-tablet","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}