{"id":1087,"date":"2012-10-19T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T01:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suzistrauss.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2012-10-19T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T01:22:31","slug":"toys-now-vs-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2012\/10\/19\/toys-now-vs-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Toys Now vs. Then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up I don&#8217;t really remember having a lot of electronic toys. \u00a0Yes we did have our game console but most things were not battery\u00a0operated\u00a0 \u00a0I had crayons, markers and coloring books. \u00a0We had dolls and slip and slides. \u00a0Kids of today are surrounded by soo many technological toys. \u00a0It amazes me how young a child can figure out an electronic device like a smart phone or\u00a0iPad.<\/p>\n<p>I see kids in the grocery store playing on hand held devices whether it be made\u00a0particularly\u00a0for children or if it&#8217;s just their parent&#8217;s cell phone. \u00a0I&#8217;m grateful for our technological advances that we have but I don&#8217;t want our kids to miss out on all of the fun they can have without technology. \u00a0I try to encourage their imagination with dress up clothes, lots of materials to build castles and forts to let their minds go wild.<\/p>\n<p>I love seeing the light in my kids&#8217; eyes when they create something. \u00a0They look like they have the biggest sense of accomplishment. \u00a0It warms my heart to see all of the new things they make. \u00a0Just yesterday my daughter had me put a skirt on one of her dinosaur toys because she wanted a dinosaur princess. \u00a0That takes imagination if I do say so. \u00a0She&#8217;s a\u00a0genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up I don&#8217;t really remember having a lot of electronic toys. \u00a0Yes we did have our game console but most things were not battery\u00a0operated\u00a0 \u00a0I had crayons, markers and coloring books. \u00a0We had dolls and slip and slides. \u00a0Kids of today are surrounded by soo many technological toys. \u00a0It amazes me how young a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2012\/10\/19\/toys-now-vs-then\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toys Now vs. Then&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,28,34],"tags":[125,331,553,577],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-and-friends","category-life","category-parenting","category-technology","tag-cell-phone","tag-imagination","tag-technology-2","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}