{"id":1236,"date":"2006-01-20T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/how-to-damage-your-kid-101\/"},"modified":"2006-01-20T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T04:17:00","slug":"how-to-damage-your-kid-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/how-to-damage-your-kid-101\/","title":{"rendered":"How to damage your kid 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salon is one of the online magazine sites I like to paw through every once in awhile for light reading.  I was messing around tonight reading about different parenting strategies and experiences (potty training just around the corner!) and came across an <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.salon.com\/mwt\/feature\/1998\/08\/cov_06feature.html\">article about Babywise<\/a>, a terrible and sadistic method of torturing newborns.  I can&#8217;t believe I hadn&#8217;t heard of it before&#8230; maybe because no one I know would do something like this to their kid?<\/p>\n<p>And so my rant: is it so difficult for parents to realize that the needs of babies don&#8217;t follow a system of convenience for us?  That the role of a parent is to provide the comfort and care a newborn needs?  That a crying newborn, left uncomforted, is learning fear, isolation, and insecurity? <\/p>\n<p>Kudos to parents who understand that part of being a loving parent is being flexible to your child&#8217;s needs.  I&#8217;m sick to death of American-style parenting that revolves around the selfish needs and schedules of over-indulged adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon is one of the online magazine sites I like to paw through every once in awhile for light reading. I was messing around tonight reading about different parenting strategies and experiences (potty training just around the corner!) and came across an article about Babywise, a terrible and sadistic method of torturing newborns. I can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}