{"id":413,"date":"2008-10-08T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2008-10-08T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T01:14:00","slug":"the-amazing-race-small-boy-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/the-amazing-race-small-boy-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Race &#8212; small boy edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/amazing-race-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-414 alignnone\" title=\"This just in . . . small boy learns to WALK not RUN!\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/amazing-race-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As hard as I try (and perhaps it is a moot exercise?) I have yet to get through to Spencer about looking where he is going. As small boys are want to do, he runs full tilt without a care as to what stands in his way or regard for his environment (ie wet bathroom tile in a 4 x 8 room\u00a0is created equal to a wide open football field in his world).\u00a0 For my part, I try to consistently remind him to look where he is going so as to avoid potential daily collisions with other humans, pets, inanimate objects etc. But somehow I think he&#8217;s not quite grasping the fundamentals of the concept.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon as he was recounting the day&#8217;s events, our conversation went like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mom, today I cried TWO TIMES!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really? Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, one time I ran right into Rebecca, REALLY HARD . . . and I cried&#8221; <em>(insert pitiful small boy facial expression here)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see &#8212; well, do you remember what we talked about this morning? Looking where you are going?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes! I did! I looked right at Rebecca, and then I sped up, and ran REALLY FAST, right into her. And then I cried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>What do you with small boys of your own think? Should I give up on this now? On second thought &#8212; don&#8217;t answer that, I&#8217;m not ready to\u00a0to let go of the dream just yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As hard as I try (and perhaps it is a moot exercise?) I have yet to get through to Spencer about looking where he is going. As small boys are want to do, he runs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,7,8],"tags":[48,113,168,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}