{"id":331,"date":"2006-03-20T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2006-03-20T15:24:12","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T22:24:12","slug":"careful-corrections-or-back-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Careful corrections or back talking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping for a little insight from some of you mothers. My son, Noah is 3 ?? and very particular with words, phrases and speech in general. Therefore I find myself on guard whenever I am explaining things to him. For example, if I tell Noah that its time to feed the horse(s) and goat(s), he will immediately respond with, ???Mom, we have 1 goat and 1 horse.??? And then last Sunday we were discussing how cold it was and he was concerned he???d be cold at church. I explained to him that the heater was going to be on. He then said, ???Mom, the heater is already on???. If this only happened out of the blue or just a few times, I???d find this very funny. However, it has turned into a game of wits with him. Now tell me this, mothers of talking toddlers. If this is just a little boy exploring diction within his vocabulary, why does it feel so belittling\/disrespectful? Should I rejoice in the possibility that Noah will grow to be the youngest politician in our state or some high-powered attorney? Or should I worry each time we speak, that my words may be analyzed, contorted, and manipulated? As I contemplate my possible undoing as a mother who knows all (Ha Ha). I then look at him as he wiggles his hips practicing to become a better hula-hooper or climbing a tree, and just see an adorable three year old.  I&#8217;m sure Noah is not the first to play this game, so what did anyone else do with this?  <\/p>\n<p>Brooke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping for a little insight from some of you mothers. My son, Noah is 3 ?? and very particular with words, phrases and speech in general. Therefore I find myself on guard whenever I am explaining things to him. For example, if I tell Noah that its time to feed the horse(s) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}