{"id":11740,"date":"2012-03-06T14:37:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T22:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=11740"},"modified":"2012-03-06T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T22:43:26","slug":"child-whisperer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=11740","title":{"rendered":"Child Whisperer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q knew way more about babies (and kids) than I did when we first became parents. And though I feel like the knowledge\/experience gap has narrowed considerably in the last 5+ years,\u00c2\u00a0he still has an advantage over me when it comes to thinking like a kid and getting a kid to do something she doesn&#8217;t want to. I was reminded of this the other night, when Zoe refused to take a bath, something she doesn&#8217;t normally do. I tried a few things to get her to budge, but when\u00c2\u00a0she didn&#8217;t\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; and my patience clearly started to wane &#8211; Q swooped in with a plan of his own. &#8220;I have an idea &#8211; let&#8217;s do a science experiment in the bath!&#8221; he suggested, and\u00c2\u00a0Zoe responded with an enthusiastic\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Yeh!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I watched in\u00c2\u00a0amazement\u00c2\u00a0as Zoe peeled\u00c2\u00a0off her clothes and happily stepped into the bath,\u00c2\u00a0and as I later told Q, I\u00c2\u00a0could only think of one thing. He&#8217;s like the Child Whisperer!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q knew way more about babies (and kids) than I did when we first became parents. And though I feel like the knowledge\/experience gap has narrowed considerably in the last 5+ years,\u00c2\u00a0he still has an advantage over me when it comes to thinking like a kid and getting a kid to do something she doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-68-two-kids-march-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11740"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12057,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740\/revisions\/12057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}