{"id":1857,"date":"2011-08-30T07:48:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2011-08-30T07:48:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:48:54","slug":"meaningless-child-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"Meaningless Child Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naturally, on the first full day back with power, the kids had peanut butter on toast for breakfast.  They never tire of such fare.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed it before and figured I&#8217;d commit it to digital memory because, well, what better way to waste bits, right?<\/p>\n<p>The lass actually abhors toast.  I figure that&#8217;s something she&#8217;s likely to grow out of.  But what I&#8217;ve always noted about how she &#8220;butters&#8221; her bread is that every square inch of the bread <em>has<\/em> to have peanut butter on it.  She refuses to tolerate any of the white of the bread showing through her peanut butter. She even gets huffy with me when I prepare her peanut butter and don&#8217;t completely cover the bread (she&#8217;s gone as far as refusing to eat the peanut-buttered bread).  I solved that problem by not preparing her peanut butter anymore.  She&#8217;s capable, she can do it.  I don&#8217;t need grief about peanut butter at 7 in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>As a side effect, anything within a several inch range of the bread also ends up with peanut butter on it.  Her fine motor control not being so fine, yet.  One might be tempted to draw a larger conclusion like &#8220;well, she&#8217;ll be real thorough when she grows up.&#8221;  Don&#8217;t.  I have 5 1\/2 years of evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naturally, on the first full day back with power, the kids had peanut butter on toast for breakfast. They never tire of such fare. I&#8217;ve noticed it before and figured I&#8217;d commit it to digital memory because, well, what better way to waste bits, right? The lass actually abhors toast. I figure that&#8217;s something she&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-the-lass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}