{"id":302,"date":"2006-05-08T19:54:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T00:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/05\/08\/on-the-couch\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T19:54:44","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T00:54:44","slug":"on-the-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"On the Couch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are continuing our practice of <a href=\"\/2006\/01\/04\/punishment\/\">sending Eli to the couch in his room<\/a> as punishment. We leave him in there for a few minutes before going in, explaining again why he was sent to his couch, and setting him free. We ask him if he knows why he&#8217;s on his couch, and a lot of times he can tell us. &#8220;No more jumping on the bed.&#8221; If he can&#8217;t, we remind him before letting him get up.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I sent him to his couch for some infraction like throwing his toys around or forgetting how traffic flows at a four-way stop. I went in to spring him. &#8220;Do you know why you&#8217;re on your couch?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>He lounged back and crossed his arms. &#8220;Hmmmmmmm,&#8221; he said in deep consideration before smacking his lips thoughtfully.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t punish him any more. &#8220;You can get up,&#8221; I told him before running out of the room to giggle helplessly.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this parenting thing is a piece of cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are continuing our practice of sending Eli to the couch in his room as punishment. We leave him in there for a few minutes before going in, explaining again why he was sent to his couch, and setting him free. We ask him if he knows why he&#8217;s on his couch, and a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the Couch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}