{"id":850,"date":"2009-06-08T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2010-01-28T22:07:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:07:04","slug":"top_five_unhelpful_things_to_say_to_a_toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/06\/08\/top_five_unhelpful_things_to_say_to_a_toddler\/","title":{"rendered":"Top five unhelpful things to say to a toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTop five unhelpful things you can say to your toddler, especially if the child is crying, angry, sad or upset &ndash; learned from actual playground encounters:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<b>Sluta!<\/b> (Stop that!)\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<b>Sk\u00e4rp dig!<\/b> (A direct translation would be &ldquo;Pull yourself together!&rsquo; but I guess in English you&rsquo;d say something like &ldquo;Behave yourself&rdquo; instead.)\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<b>Vad \u00e4r det f\u00f6r fel p\u00e5 dig?!<\/b> (What&rsquo;s wrong with you?!)\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<b>Nu l\u00e4gger du av.<\/b> (You will stop that right this moment.)\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<b>Varf\u00f6r ska du vara s\u00e5 jobbig?<\/b> (Why do you have to be so difficult?)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nEvery time I hear a variation on this theme I can just imagine the toddler thinking, <i>Thanks for the reminder &ndash; I had totally forgotten that crying is not the accepted method of argumentation in this setting. Of course I will stop.<\/i> Not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top five unhelpful things you can say to your toddler, especially if the child is crying, angry, sad or upset &ndash; learned from actual playground encounters: Sluta! (Stop that!) Sk\u00e4rp dig! (A direct translation would be &ldquo;Pull yourself together!&rsquo; but I guess in English you&rsquo;d say something like &ldquo;Behave yourself&rdquo; instead.) Vad \u00e4r det f\u00f6r [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[772,94],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-parenting","tag-tantrums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}