{"id":1269,"date":"2013-08-02T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2013-11-22T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T21:35:44","slug":"traveling-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/02\/traveling-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since my girls started eating kids meals, I have kept them away from associating their meals with getting toys.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want them to prefer the fast food options because they get a toy over healthier options but that doesn\u2019t mean we avoid fast food altogether.\u00a0 We occasionally get a not-so-healthy hamburger-french-fry lunch or dinner but I always get the healthiest side item like fruit instead of the fries and I also don\u2019t give them the toy.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>I\u2019m sneaky, when I get the meal, I slyly grad the toy out of the bag\/box and slip it in my purse. \u00a0Honeybun\u00a0has figured out that most kids meals at fast-food places are supposed to come with toys but she doesn\u2019t usually fight me about not having it.\u00a0 My mom used to keep the toy until we finished our meal, but I don\u2019t give my kids the toy even after their done because I have ulterior motives.<\/p>\n

I hoard the toys somewhere they can\u2019t get them and keep them for when we go on the airplane.\u00a0 I slip one or two in each girl\u2019s backpack the night before we leave and wait for them to be surprised when we get to the airport or on the airplane.\u00a0 It makes traveling easier by providing a little excitement and new entertainment and keeps them from wanting to go to specific restaurants just for the toys.\u00a0 (I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve figured out yet that their surprise toys are actually the ones I\u2019ve been sneaking from their kids meals!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since my girls started eating kids meals, I have kept them away from associating their meals with getting toys.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want them to prefer the fast food options because they get a toy over healthier options but that doesn\u2019t mean we avoid fast food altogether.\u00a0 We occasionally get a not-so-healthy hamburger-french-fry lunch or dinner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life","category-tiny-travellers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}