{"id":10987,"date":"2016-09-01T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=10987"},"modified":"2016-08-30T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T22:00:02","slug":"josiahs-stepping-up-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=10987","title":{"rendered":"Josiah&#8217;s stepping up now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Chloe is back to school I&#8217;m starting to rely on Josiah more and more to step up and take on more responsibility. \u00a0 He&#8217;s a bit distractable these days, so sometimes I have to direct him a couple of times before he finishes, but he&#8217;s really doing great. \u00a0My favorite thing he&#8217;s started doing recently (as part of his daily chores) is putting away the dishes. \u00a0Now, he can&#8217;t quite reach everything up high in the cupboards, but he unloads it all and then puts away everything that he can. \u00a0I love it. \u00a0Plus, as an added bonus, I know that he&#8217;s going to want to complete that chore right away in the morning, so it makes me load up and start the dishwasher before bed every night. \u00a0See? \u00a0It&#8217;s a win-win!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/josiah-putting-away-dishes-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10975\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/josiah-putting-away-dishes-R.jpg\" alt=\"josiah putting away dishes R\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/josiah-putting-away-dishes-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/josiah-putting-away-dishes-R-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/josiah-putting-away-dishes-2-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10974\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/josiah-putting-away-dishes-2-R.jpg\" alt=\"josiah putting away dishes (2) R\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/josiah-putting-away-dishes-2-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/josiah-putting-away-dishes-2-R-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Chloe is back to school I&#8217;m starting to rely on Josiah more and more to step up and take on more responsibility. \u00a0 He&#8217;s a bit distractable these days, so sometimes I have to direct him a couple of times before he finishes, but he&#8217;s really doing great. \u00a0My favorite thing he&#8217;s started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10989,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions\/10989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}