{"id":7175,"date":"2014-04-10T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:19:11","slug":"montessori-inspired-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7175","title":{"rendered":"Montessori-Inspired"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"DSC_0011\"<\/a>Lately we have backslid into too much screen time. We have all been sick and recovering from surgery and exhausted and just trying to make it through each day. Milo, Oliver, and Emil keep passing illnesses back and forth, and Milo has barely eaten anything since Saturday. Their little bodies fight hard and they are doing better every day, but man is it rough.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I let Milo watch one little show on our iPad, then encouraged him to choose an activity he could do while lying down (poor kid just has no energy). He chose lacing cards, and I got a few shots of him before I joined him; I remember doing this as a little girl! One thing this whole fiasco has done is give us more time together. \"DSC_0019\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"DSC_0035\"<\/a>He snuggles up next to me and talks about all sorts of things, mostly facts about animals and stories from his days in school. Having his little feverish body close to mine reminds me of his infancy, when I used to nap with him in the afternoons in the big bed in the front bedroom of our rented Baltimore row house. It seems like yesterday, really.<\/p>\n

The beauty of lacing is two-fold, I think. The task itself prepares for more complex sewing and is quite good for fine motor skills. But more than that, it is an activity much like coloring- I always get the most thoughtful chatter from my boys when they are engaged in a rote activity that keeps their hands busy. Ask them anything straight-on, and it’s a different story. But\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>something with them, and it’s marvelous how much they open up.<\/p>\n

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Have a beautiful day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately we have backslid into too much screen time. We have all been sick and recovering from surgery and exhausted and just trying to make it through each day. Milo, Oliver, and Emil keep passing illnesses back and forth, and Milo has barely eaten anything since Saturday. Their little bodies fight hard and they are … Continue reading “Montessori-Inspired”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,187],"tags":[92,48,73,152],"class_list":["post-7175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montessori-inspired","category-motherhood","tag-milo","tag-motherhood","tag-school-days","tag-sick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175","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=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11775,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions\/11775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}