{"id":3792,"date":"2014-04-06T17:41:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2014-04-07T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:17:09","slug":"this-is-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/06\/this-is-why\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Why…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not much of a “I told you so” mommy. I strongly believe in natural consequences<\/a> for my children and allow them to make mistakes and learn from them whenever it is safe. Usually these experiences end with a “this is why you don’t\/shouldn’t\/aren’t supposed to…” comment from me.<\/p>\n

And I AM a “quick, take a picture before you help them” mommy:<\/p>\n

\"20140406-174352.jpg\"<\/a>This is why doll buggies stay on the floor…<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>This is why you don’t try to wiggle away from a guy with a broken collar bone…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0995\"This is why you don’t rock so hard in the chair…<\/p>\n

\"DSC08330\"<\/a>This is why you don’t pull so hard on the wrapping paper…<\/p>\n

\"DSC08706\"<\/a>This is why you don’t try to get out from the raincover…<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>This is why you don’t jump on hardwood in tights…<\/p>\n

\"DSC03958\"<\/a>This is why you don’t climb on the stool without a big person…<\/p>\n

\"DSC03975\"<\/a>This is why you don’t kick your toy bar…<\/p>\n

\"DSC03947\"<\/a>This is why you don’t run in wellies…<\/p>\n

\"DSC02857<\/a>This is why you don’t back out of the chair…<\/p>\n

\"DSC02753<\/a>This is why you don’t roll under the bed…<\/p>\n

\"DSC02451<\/a>This is why you pull out the chair before climbing up…<\/p>\n

\"DSC02390<\/a>This is why you don’t play “tackle grapefruit”…<\/p>\n

\"DSC01798\"<\/a>This is why you don’t crawl between the table and chair…<\/p>\n

\"DSC01778\"<\/a>This is why you don’t try to get around the barricade…<\/p>\n

\"DSC01359\"<\/a>This is why you don’t sit in a basket…<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>This is why you don’t linger at the bottom of the slide…<\/p>\n

\"DSC00053\"<\/a>\"DSC00054\"<\/a>This is why you don’t crawl on the edge of the saucer…<\/p>\n

\"DSC06120\"<\/a>This is why you don’t crawl around with a towel on your head…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"DSC04363\"<\/a>This is why you don’t try to get inside the bedside table…<\/p>\n

\"1524967_10201160517724583_1380210295_n\"<\/a>This is why you don’t play under the coffee table…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"DSC06857\"<\/a>This is why you don’t try to stand up at the table…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>This is why you don’t get too wild at the museum…<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>This is why you don’t flip over the hotel chair…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Photo042\"<\/a>This is why you don’t steal mommy’s iPad and run away with it…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Photo038\"<\/a>This is why you don’t try to get into the buggy from the chair…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Photo002\"<\/a>This is why you don’t fold up your bed mattress instead of napping…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>This is why you don’t wear glitter tights in a house full of cats…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"SP_A0072\"<\/a>This is why you don’t try to take your pajamas off during nap…<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>This is why you hold my hand…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not much of a “I told you so” mommy. I strongly believe in natural consequences for my children and allow them to make mistakes and learn from them whenever it is safe. Usually these experiences end with a “this is why you don’t\/shouldn’t\/aren’t supposed to…” comment from me. And I AM a “quick, take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","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=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}