{"id":895,"date":"2011-12-13T08:26:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2011-12-09T08:54:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T15:54:03","slug":"baby-logic-30-with-or-without-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"Baby Logic #30 &#8211; With or without you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, when we were driving to day care in the morning, I had forgotten to pack Ro&#8217;s beloved Pluto stuffed toy. Pluto is his special toy and goes everywhere with him. Thinking of it, he&#8217;s probably the most traveled stuffed toy on the planet with multiple trips to India, Germany and around the US :).<\/p>\n<p>So I had to come up with a strategy to explain, why it&#8217;s OK to drive without Pluto that day, so I didn&#8217;t have to turn around. I noticed that U2&#8217;s &#8220;With or without You&#8221; song was playing on the radio, so I explained that sometimes you can do things (here: going to day care) with or without someone (read: Pluto). After explaining this a couple of times to him, Ro was happy and was humming along with the tune &#8211; problem solved.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a couple of weeks, when we were driving again to day care -without Pluto.<\/p>\n<p>Ro: Daddy, can we listen to the Pluto song?<\/p>\n<p>It took me a moment to decipher his logic, but then remembered and played U2 on the radio for him. That made him smile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, when we were driving to day care in the morning, I had forgotten to pack Ro&#8217;s beloved Pluto stuffed toy. Pluto is his special toy and goes everywhere with him. Thinking of it, he&#8217;s probably the most traveled stuffed toy on the planet with multiple trips to India, Germany and around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=895\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baby Logic #30 &#8211; With or without you<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}