{"id":1317,"date":"2008-02-07T13:56:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T20:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2008-02-07T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T21:01:13","slug":"zoe-the-cavewoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Zoe the Cavewoman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a fun article in the New York Times the other day; once I spotted the headline (<em>Coping With the Caveman in the Crib<\/em>), I knew I had to read it. The piece focused on a pediatrician who has written a book on how to best handle and communicate with toddlers. From the text: &#8220;In his view, toddlers are not just small people. In fact, for all practical purposes, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not even small Homo sapiens&#8230; Dr. Karp notes that in terms of brain development, a toddler is primitive, an emotion-driven, instinctive creature that has yet to develop the thinking skills that define modern humans. Logic and persuasion, common tools of modern parenting, &#8216;are meaningless to a Neanderthal,&#8217; Dr. Karp says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never really thought of Zoe as a cavewomen, but I guess given that her main forms of communication are grunting, pointing and talking in what this doctor terms &#8220;toddler-ese,&#8221; it makes a bit of sense. I think we should buy this guy&#8217;s book! Or maybe just start grunting back at her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a fun article in the New York Times the other day; once I spotted the headline (Coping With the Caveman in the Crib), I knew I had to read it. The piece focused on a pediatrician who has written a book on how to best handle and communicate with toddlers. From the text: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17fourteen-to-fifteen-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","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=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}