{"id":41,"date":"2005-12-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/2005\/12\/baby-face-or-facetime-2-0.html"},"modified":"2005-12-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T16:00:00","slug":"baby-face-or-facetime-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/2005\/12\/baby-face-or-facetime-20.html","title":{"rendered":"Baby Face, or Facetime 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/uploaded_images\/15toys184.2-779452.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/uploaded_images\/15toys184.2-775440.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>There are, coincidentally, two articles on the face in today&#8217;s New York Times. And while the the face of another takes like a death mask to new life, baby skin reborn to smile at the day once again, a real baby elsewhere returns her mother&#8217;s look with an expression of blank distance and disconnection. <\/p>\n<p>The matter of screens in front of babies ought to be simple. And it&#8217;s not just whether or not technology is interactive (and since when is human computer interaction the way interaction skills are supposed to start? Come on now people!). A face looks back. It returns acknowledgment&#8211;what psychologists call &#8220;stroking.&#8221; That&#8217;s what we need during our first precious years on the planet &#8212; education is cognition, and the first cognition is recognition, and though a baby may recognize the flower on the screen, it&#8217;s the mother&#8217;s look of recognition that binds the heart and the mind to form the circuit that provides emotional intelligence. The screen can&#8217;t look back. And I&#8217;m afraid that after those first years of child development, nor can we.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are, coincidentally, two articles on the face in today&#8217;s New York Times. And while the the face of another takes like a death mask to new life, baby skin reborn to smile at the day once again, a real baby elsewhere returns her mother&#8217;s look with an expression of blank distance and disconnection. The&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}