{"id":5943,"date":"2019-01-14T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/play-and-parent-brains\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:00","slug":"play-and-parent-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/play-and-parent-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Play and parent brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study wired up parents and kids to <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.2006328\">watch their brains while they played together<\/a>. Perhaps not surprisingly, things went better when the parents payed attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Parents are neurally responsive to their infants during social play, and that, when the parent is more neurally responsive, the infant is more attentive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or as it&#8217;s known in our house, &#8220;Dad, put down your phone!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study wired up parents and kids to watch their brains while they played together. Perhaps not surprisingly, things went better when the parents payed attention: Parents are neurally responsive to their infants during social play, and that, when the parent is more neurally responsive, the infant is more attentive. Or as it&#8217;s known&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/play-and-parent-brains\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,374,3],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-mindfulness","category-personal","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1xR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5948,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions\/5948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}