{"id":173,"date":"2009-07-21T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/21\/mommys-little-helper\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T23:58:00","slug":"mommys-little-helper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/mommys-little-helper\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy&#8217;s Little Helper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:rgb(153,51,0);\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>Alex (two years old) dearly loves to help me.&nbsp; Tonight, I was cleaning in the kids&#8217; room and had a pile of dirty clothes I&#8217;d tossed to the hallway.&nbsp; He was clearly bothered by the clutter and started to scoop them up and put them in the basket of clean, folded laundry in the hallway.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;No Honey,&quot; I told him, &quot;Not in there.&nbsp; Can you put them in the hamper for Mommy?&nbsp; The hamper?&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>He dutifully trotted off to the bathroom with his arms full of clothes.<\/p>\n<p>I was so pleased with him!&nbsp; What a helpful boy!&nbsp; I thanked him for doing such a great job and carried on with my cleaning.<\/p>\n<p>A little later, Annalee came into the bedroom.&nbsp; I had just gotten Alex to sleep and he was sleeping sweetly next to me.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Mom,&quot; she asked, &quot;Why is the toilet stuffed with clothes?&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my boy!<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the thought that counts, right?&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex (two years old) dearly loves to help me.&nbsp; Tonight, I was cleaning in the kids&#8217; room and had a pile of dirty clothes I&#8217;d tossed to the hallway.&nbsp; He was clearly bothered by the clutter and started to scoop them up and put them in the basket of clean, folded laundry in the hallway.&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[25,237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}