{"id":11914,"date":"2016-09-23T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=11914"},"modified":"2016-09-22T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:47:05","slug":"time-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=11914","title":{"rendered":"Time-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0159\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8361\/29785759506_5b291edf5b_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0159\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8361\/29785759506_7ce8f9de00_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0159\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A blog I have followed daily for years now, <a href=\"http:\/\/cupofjo.com\">Cup of Jo<\/a>, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2016\/09\/how-to-stop-tantrums\/\">posted about tantrums<\/a> and &#8220;floor time,&#8221; which is quite literally getting on the floor with your child or children for at least 20 minutes every day, in an effort to head off tantrums or cranky, attention-seeking behavior.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While my boys are older and therefore less likely to throw what I would describe at tantrums, they are still prone to cranky, surly behavior (as we all are, frankly). And I have found that in our house, it is 100% <em>certainly<\/em> true that floor time is just as important with older children. I have also read about this among peaceful parenting circles, where it is referred to as &#8220;time in.&#8221; <em>It is the time in that deflects the time out<\/em>. It provides our child with undivided, uninterrupted attention on their level, whatever that may be, every single day. It makes them feel important and loved. What an easy way to connect!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your weekend. I hope it is a beautiful one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog I have followed daily for years now, Cup of Jo, recently posted about tantrums and &#8220;floor time,&#8221; which is quite literally getting on the floor with your child or children for at least 20 minutes every day, in an effort to head off tantrums or cranky, attention-seeking behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11941,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions\/11941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}