{"id":2990,"date":"2013-10-15T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T15:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2013-10-15T22:57:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T02:57:04","slug":"wordless-wednesday-modeling-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wordless-wednesday-modeling-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordless Wednesday – Modeling behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is my first ever Wordless Wednesday post.\u00a0 I captured this image (regretfully, not a video) of my son multi-tasking last night. He was cleaning up and “on a call.”<\/p>\n
When I asked my son how he was coming along,\u00a0 he said “This is my last call…. then I can play with my kids!”\u00a0 He nearly broke my heart… it was so sweet.\u00a0 It’s what my husband says to him daily\u00a0before he ends his workday (he works from home). When his “call” (i.e.\u00a0pacing\u00a0back and forth with the phone to his ear not saying a word) was over, he went and placed his phone\u00a0on the table and came to the toy area.<\/p>\n
I learned two important things from this: This is my first ever Wordless Wednesday post.\u00a0 I captured this image (regretfully, not a video) of my son multi-tasking last night. He was cleaning up and “on a call.” When I asked my son how he was coming along,\u00a0 he said “This is my last call…. then I can play with my kids!”\u00a0 He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":"Wordless Wednesday - Modeling the behaviour you want to see in your kids & spongy minds http:\/\/wp.me\/p3dEqj-Me","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5309],"tags":[137227457,137227456,137227229,34920942,137227228],"class_list":{"0":"post-2990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-parenting","7":"tag-children","8":"tag-family","9":"tag-modeling-behaviour","10":"tag-parenting-2","11":"tag-wordless-wednesday","12":"entry","13":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n1) Model the behaviour you want to see in your kids (i.e. be in the moment, put the phone away when you play with your children) AND
\n2) Young minds are\u00a0VERY impressionable.\u00a0 They\u00a0are sponges (clich\u00e9, I know, but it’s TRUE). <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"