{"id":109,"date":"2005-12-15T13:41:21","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T13:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2005\/12\/15\/daddy-tale-supplemental\/"},"modified":"2005-12-15T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T13:41:21","slug":"daddy-tale-supplemental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2005\/12\/15\/daddy-tale-supplemental\/","title":{"rendered":"Daddy Tale Supplemental"},"content":{"rendered":"

[My apologies for missing yesterday’s tale. The kids shared their stomach virus, and it really doubled me over. I’ll probably miss tomorrow’s tale as well, so here’s a rare Thursday update.]<\/em><\/p>\n

The other day, while I was sick, J had an altercation with her youngest son. The two boys were swatting at each other, and N was getting a little overly enthusiastic. J broke it up, but N kept right on going. After saying “no” a third time, it was time to bring out the big guns. “Okay, time out<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“No!”<\/p>\n

“Time Out!”<\/p>\n

“No!”<\/p>\n

So she picked him up and carried him over to time-out. As you might expect, he wasn’t happy. He threw himself on the ground in classic tantrum form. Tantrum during time-out is a mistake in our household. We stick to the rule: you’re in time-out for one minute per year of age – but the timer doesn’t start until you’re quiet.<\/p>\n

As time crawled by, his big brother couldn’t stand it. He ran to his mom.<\/p>\n

“Oh no! We have to save him! We have to save him! We have to save him from time-out!”<\/p>\n

When she didn’t respond properly (and who would), he ran over and sat down outside the time out area. “Come on! We have to save you! Oh no!”<\/p>\n

J intervened and kept the time out going. After the required time was up, N was released. With a big grin at his brother, he ran right back and sat down in time-out. “Time Out! Time Out!”<\/p>\n

C looked up at his mom. “Oh No! We have to save him!”<\/p>\n

I think time-out might be losing some of its effectiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[My apologies for missing yesterday’s tale. The kids shared their stomach virus, and it really doubled me over. I’ll probably miss tomorrow’s tale as well, so here’s a rare Thursday update.] The other day, while I was sick, J had an altercation with her youngest son. The two boys were swatting at each other, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[122,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-1L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}