{"id":3449,"date":"2009-11-19T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T05:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2009-11-19T00:53:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T05:53:40","slug":"coping-with-frustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=3449","title":{"rendered":"Coping With Frustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bad_Tobin\"<\/p>\n

Now that Mika is able to express herself in writing, the skill is being used for good … and bad. This note was slipped under the bedroom door while she was having a timeout for hitting her brother with a wooden brick over the head.<\/p>\n

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Tobin on the other hand shows promising signs that maybe there is a wee bit of light throughout the tunnel of the “terrible twos” we have recently entered. For once, he has been able to laugh at himself<\/em> when he realized that he threw an overly dramatic fit … but those moments are rare. Today however, he was able to put his frustration into words for the first time: I stopped him from munching more than a couple of raisins before breakfast – a house rule because otherwise we would go through a tub of raisins every other day. Predictably, he dissolved into a puddle of tears and dramatically pounded the kitchen floor with his fist. I told him to stop fake-crying as this is what we go through e-ve-ry morning and he said: “Nein! Mami \u00e4rgert Tobin!”<\/em> (No! Mami is upsetting Tobin!) and proceded with his dramatic performance … just long enough to make his point. Then he took off and played with Mika until breakfast was ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that Mika is able to express herself in writing, the skill is being used for good … and bad. This note was slipped under the bedroom door while she was having a timeout for hitting her brother with a wooden brick over the head. … Tobin on the other hand shows promising signs that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[3,356,316],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}