{"id":29098,"date":"2011-11-02T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T18:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_parents_outsource_the_basics\/"},"modified":"2011-11-02T18:09:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T18:09:17","slug":"wsj_parents_outsource_the_basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29098","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Parents Outsource the Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some New York City children take after-school classes in dance, pottery or softball. Once a week, Gillian and Hunter Randall add an unusual activity to the list: lessons on how to shake hands.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a class taught by SocialSklz:-), a company founded in 2009 to address deteriorating social skills in the age of iPhones, Twitter and Facebook friends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to have a real conversation anymore. And you know what? I&#8217;m guilty of it too,&#8221; said the Randalls&#8217; mother, Lisa LaBarbera, noting that her 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son both have iPod touches and handheld videogame devices. &#8220;You get carpal tunnel, but you&#8217;re not building those communication skills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204394804577010351275810044.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some New York City children take after-school classes in dance, pottery or softball. Once a week, Gillian and Hunter Randall add an unusual activity to the list: lessons on how to shake hands. It&#8217;s a class taught by SocialSklz:-), a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29098\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,94,101,111,98,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-education","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}