{"id":7453,"date":"2014-02-15T13:14:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T19:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=7453"},"modified":"2014-02-15T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T19:14:21","slug":"screen-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=7453","title":{"rendered":"Screen Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently I’ve allowed Chloe to start playing educational games on my computer as a reward for doing tasks around the house.\u00a0\u00a0 She loves playing each game and then earning a “page in her sticker book” that she can then decorate how she wants and print.\u00a0 So, it’s part screen time and part art time I guess.\u00a0 The funny part is that Josiah just loves to sit and watch her.\u00a0 He generally doesn’t even try to touch the computer or mouse–just watches.\u00a0 I can hear Chloe asking him what game she should pick next so she’s involving him which I think is so cute.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Chloe:\u00a0 It’s come to our attention recently about Chloe being a “sore loser.”\u00a0 We’re trying to figure out how to instill the idea that not everything is always about her and what she will “get.”\u00a0 It’s tough to teach a child to be less selfish when we live a selfish world.\u00a0 And, frankly, I remember being VERY selfish at her age too.\u00a0 There are many (many!) pictures of me as a child sitting next to the Birthday boy\/girl with a sour expression on my face because it wasn’t my Birthday and they weren’t MY gifts.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s crazy how many of my traits I can see in Chloe when she obviously didn’t even know me as a child.\u00a0 It’s a bit scary sometimes.<\/p>\n

So, we’re talking more about being generous and trying to focus on how giving makes other happy and that in turn makes us happy.\u00a0 It’s a tough and slow process.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s some of the conversations going on in our house these days.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I’ve allowed Chloe to start playing educational games on my computer as a reward for doing tasks around the house.\u00a0\u00a0 She loves playing each game and then earning a “page in her sticker book” that she can then decorate how she wants and print.\u00a0 So, it’s part screen time and part art time I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453"}],"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=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7459,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions\/7459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}