{"id":463,"date":"2009-12-05T11:51:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T17:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2014-10-10T21:25:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T02:25:53","slug":"if-only-it-were-that-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/if-only-it-were-that-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"If only it were that easy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-464\" title=\"kid_meter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/kid_meter.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have to agree with my wife, I too, wish our kids had a floating stats meter above their heads<\/strong> to give us immediate feedback as to when they&#8217;re feeling tired, sick, angry, happy, scared or hungry. It seems the older they are the better they <em>think<\/em> they are at <em>convincing<\/em> you what they&#8217;re feeling \u2013 even if their body language suggests otherwise. Just think of all the arguments that could be avoided with such a meter. Our oldest is going to a birthday party\/sleepover today and I&#8217;m quite sure at some point tomorrow his meter will be completely empty. I know when we suggest he take a nap we will inevitably get &#8220;I&#8217;M NOT TIRED!&#8221; To which we could confidently, yet calmly reply with &#8220;but your meter says you are.&#8221; End of discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to agree with my wife, I too, wish our kids had a floating stats meter above their heads to give us immediate feedback as to when they&#8217;re feeling tired, sick, angry, happy, scared or hungry. It seems the older they are the better they think they are at convincing you what they&#8217;re feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[114,113],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-kids","tag-sleepovers","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-7t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7649,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/7649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}