{"id":12,"date":"2008-02-20T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-02-20T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T02:23:00","slug":"full-blown-regression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Full-blown regression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antonia is neither very well nor very sick.  And it&#8217;s manifested itself as full-blown regression, as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>needing to be rocked in Daddy&#8217;s arms &#8211; except he&#8217;s now forgotten the words of the rocking songs, so she had to sing them for him;<\/li>\n<li>cuddling up to Mummy &#8211; except she now reads blog entries and my emails over my shoulder which I&#8217;m not totally comfortable with;<\/li>\n<li>pretending she needed to learn colours, digging out her early childhood blocks and strewing them over the kitchen floor;<\/li>\n<li>typing random letters on the computer keyboard &#8211; except that now she&#8217;s too strong and at least one of the keys went flying off;<\/li>\n<li>having me dig the board books out of the cellar &#8211; except this time she seized them and read them to me;<\/li>\n<li>refusing to answer people&#8217;s questions &#8211; aaaaaghh!  I really don&#8217;t need to see that one sneaking back, just a couple of weeks before the homeschool inspection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apart from that, it&#8217;s kind of cute, and I was happy to go along with it.  I even tried to find her a Teletubbies to watch, but no, those are gone right out of our lives.  Here are the board books we liked when Antonia was little.  Nothing very original, but all nice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moo, Baa, La, La, La by Sandra Boynton<\/li>\n<li>Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum by Allen and Janet Ahlberg<\/li>\n<li>Jamberry by Bruce Degen<\/li>\n<li>Time For Bed by Mem Fox and Jane Dyer<\/li>\n<li>Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re Going On A Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxbury<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonia is neither very well nor very sick. And it&#8217;s manifested itself as full-blown regression, as follows: needing to be rocked in Daddy&#8217;s arms &#8211; except he&#8217;s now forgotten the words of the rocking songs, so she had to sing them for him; cuddling up to Mummy &#8211; except she now reads blog entries and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=12\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Full-blown regression<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}