{"id":894,"date":"2008-05-01T11:28:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T19:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2008-05-01T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T19:32:46","slug":"potty-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/potty-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Potty Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan finally got the idea of taking the initiatives to go to potty on his own. He&#8217;s a bit late among his friends, but we felt that he&#8217;d do it when he felt ready for it&#8230; And indeed he did. It was a milestone event for all 3 of us to hear him insist on going to his potty chair and actually &#8220;holding&#8221; for it.<\/p>\n<p>Another milestone reached this week was his readiness to sleep alone. This couldn&#8217;t have come at a better time as Bryan&#8217;s sister is due in about a month. Last night he kicked me out of the bed because he wanted to sleep by himself, with light off and the door closed! And without a fuss or complaint, he went to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wished he wasn&#8217;t growing so fast so that I can rock him to sleep just for a little longer. (Now he won&#8217;t even let me hold him like a baby, let alone rocking him.) But soon enough, he&#8217;d be his own man and making choices all on his own without requiring my input at all. Life with children goes by way too fast. And some days I wish we&#8217;d stay in &#8220;today&#8221; just for a little longer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan finally got the idea of taking the initiatives to go to potty on his own. He&#8217;s a bit late among his friends, but we felt that he&#8217;d do it when he felt ready for it&#8230; And indeed he did. It was a milestone event for all 3 of us to hear him insist on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/potty-training\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Potty Training&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-stuff","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-eq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}