concerned the day that i found she put daddy to pedestrian andbed and she was getting in her computer time. i want to welcome the director of the bernard college center for toddler development and author of how toddlers thrive what parents can do from ages 2 to 5 to plant the seeds of lifelong success. you said that really our technology-based concerns when raising young children, but i really use technology in my parenting. we all do. it s a different era than we ve ever lived in. because there s so much technology, it distracts us all the time. young children need us. they don t need us interacting or hovering but they need that sense of are you there for me mommy, daddy? yeah, i m here for you. if you re cooking dinner and your up with-year-old 1-year-old calls or comes over you can easily give her a glance or a smile but when you re doing this and
you re attached to your phone, we re gone. let me ask this though. i worry about the standards for 21st century parenting, which strike me both as pretty oppressive particularly for women and working women and also not in line with what most of human parenting was, right. for most of human parenting, toddler person is at the house and you are doing whatever with the cows in the wherever and if toddler is having feeling about it, so what because you re with the cows and the wherever. then you come home and toddler person iokayis okay. so is there a standard of patient parenting that is let me interact with you at all moments, which may actually not be what they need for human development. i couldn t agree more. this is the nuance that is difficult for all of us to achieve. they need us they need to know we re available. when your toddler calls from the next room and says, mommy, and you say yeah that s often all they need just to know that you re there. but when you re tied to your
health supports your heart and body, so you stay active and strong. ensure. take life in. i admit it i use technology a lot in my parenting. after school i wait for my 13-year-old to text me when practice is over and when i need to pick her up. when i m at work and wondering how my 1-year-old daughter is doing, i can check my daily connect app where her child care provider uploads information about what she s eating how long she napped. even pictures from music class. i love that my baby monitor connects via wi-fi to my phone. i can see when a.j. wakes up in the middle of the night and demands that daddy comes and gets her. and yes, sometimes i hand my ipad over to my 1-year-old. what can i say, she likes green eggs and ham. but i was just a little bit