{"id":194,"date":"2009-08-09T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/09\/making-hospital-stays-a-little-easier-part-two\/"},"modified":"2009-08-09T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T22:21:00","slug":"making-hospital-stays-a-little-easier-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/09\/making-hospital-stays-a-little-easier-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Hospital Stays a Little Easier (Part Two)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,0);\"><strong>Thanks to Candy for writing in with more ideas about ways to pass the time when little ones are in the hospital or home sick.&nbsp; She shared:<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,0);\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">My 4yo nephew just spent some time in a double hip spica cast and one thing that helped him was <span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">putting his favorite doll in similar bandages<\/span> (iv bandaids, cast, ect.) and <span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">give him a little doctor kit<\/span>. That way he could care for someone and feel in control for a change. Another thing are those <span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">little travel watercolor kits<\/span> that are made for adults with a water brush (a brush that has the water right in the barrel, no need for messy spillable cups). The pigments are bright and satisfying and the cleanup is perfect for a hospital setting.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,0);\"><strong><\/p>\n<p>Great ideas!&nbsp; We have some of those watercolor pen brushes and they would be perfect.&nbsp; I also love the idea of giving kids their own little patients to care for.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,0);\"><strong>Thanks Candy!&nbsp; <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,0);\"><strong>I hope your nephew is doing much better too.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Candy for writing in with more ideas about ways to pass the time when little ones are in the hospital or home sick.&nbsp; She shared: My 4yo nephew just spent some time in a double hip spica cast and one thing that helped him was putting his favorite doll in similar bandages (iv&#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":[140,143,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}