{"id":2233,"date":"2010-06-29T08:32:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T18:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2010-06-29T08:32:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T18:32:36","slug":"testing-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/testing-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2234\" title=\"toddler-1\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/toddler-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/toddler-1.jpg 333w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/toddler-1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It really IS like a switch &#8212; one day they&#8217;re cute little babies that need nothing more than an occasional diaper change and some food in his mouth, the next day they&#8217;re off running around and testing boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>We recently noticed Kingston going around throwing things all the time. The pediatrician called it &#8220;testing gravity&#8221;.\u00a0 While I knew it would come eventually, it&#8217;s the oddity of it all that surprises me a little. I understand when he has a little tantrum he&#8217;d want to throw something&#8230;but the weird cases are when he&#8217;d be sitting there happy one minute watching TV and then he&#8217;d just subconsciously pick up a pillow and toss it across the room. Then continue watching TV again. My wife and I would stare and him and just wonder what possessed him to do that.<\/p>\n<p>We started giving him little 1-minute timeouts to try curb the problem. It&#8217;s only difficult trying to keep a straight face when you hear him try to escape his corner&#8230;the minute you look at him and point back towards the corner, he&#8217;d scoot back. *squeak squeak squeak* The sounds of his chubby legs squeaking back towards the timeout spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really IS like a switch &#8212; one day they&#8217;re cute little babies that need nothing more than an occasional diaper change and some food in his mouth, the next day they&#8217;re off running around and testing boundaries. We recently noticed Kingston going around throwing things all the time. The pediatrician called it &#8220;testing gravity&#8221;.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-kingston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}