{"id":64,"date":"2021-03-12T12:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/2021-3-12-on-simplicity-with-children\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T06:35:42","slug":"2021-3-12-on-simplicity-with-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/2021-3-12-on-simplicity-with-children\/","title":{"rendered":"He chose to see his child\u2019s behaviour as a question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Looking at him from this perspective, I saw that when he walked into the street, he really was asking a question.<\/p><p>\u2018What are the rules? How do I generalize? When is it all right to walk in the street and when isn&#8217;t it?\u2019<\/p><p>[First] I told him to stay out of the street. The next day, I carried him when we crossed the street. Occasionally, when there was no traffic, I held his hand while he crossed. On isolated roads, I would even let him go across alone while I walked alongside.<\/p><p>As I became clear, and as he understood, he complied. He enjoyed complying. He derived a great deal of satisfaction out of mastering the road-crossing situation. We both were seeking the same goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from \u201cProfound Simplicity\u201d by Will Schutz, 1979<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at him from this perspective, I saw that when he walked into the street, he really was asking a question. \u2018What are the rules?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peerland.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}