{"id":34,"date":"2014-02-13T09:29:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-02-13T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:24:54","slug":"toca-house-ipad-app-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Toca House iPad App for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the games we see kids play include senseless birds (<em>angry<\/em> or <em>flappy<\/em>) or they teach basic skills (reading and arithmetic; these are awesome as well). During Apple&#8217;s <em>12 Days of Christmas<\/em>, I downloaded a kids app that I really didn&#8217;t think my 2 1\/2 year old son would have interest in. That app&#8230; <em>Toca House<\/em>. This app is amazing both in concept and &#8220;game play&#8221;. Kids have the opportunity to complete many household tasks or chores. I know what you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;How would a toddler benefit from this?&#8221; I know my son will not be washing clothes or mowing the lawn anytime soon, but the app also shows them what to do do when they spill things and how to sort mail into mailboxes by color. It also helps my son understand what the &#8220;mythical&#8221; vacuum cleaner does as he vacuums a thick cloud of black dirt (obviously he doesn&#8217;t understand that the vacuum mommy uses picks up tiny dust particles because he can&#8217;t <em>see<\/em> them). To get the most of this app, as with any app, parents must play with their kids to reinforce the chores kids complete. Hopefully some day as I vacuum the floor, I&#8217;ll see my son pick up the app and <em>pretend<\/em> vacuum as well. Until then, I appreciate him helping me load clothes into the dryer \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140213-102444.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140213-102444.jpg\" alt=\"20140213-102444.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the games we see kids play include senseless birds (angry or flappy) or they teach basic skills (reading and arithmetic; these are awesome as well). During Apple&#8217;s 12 Days of Christmas, I downloaded a kids app that I really didn&#8217;t think my 2 1\/2 year old son would have interest in. That app&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","with-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140213-093144.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lBw5-y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theis.bankssquared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}