{"id":2998,"date":"2008-03-22T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austenandgage.com\/focus-on-behavior"},"modified":"2008-03-22T01:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T01:39:00","slug":"focus-on-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From birth, Austen focused on physical development.  Kicking legs, using hands, pulling up, cruising, walking, running, climbing and now jumping.<\/p>\n<p \/>At around a year, she started focusing on speech, first understanding it and then using it.  She now constructs new sentences every day.<\/p>\n<p \/>Currently, her focus is on behavior and what she is and isn&#8217;t supposed to do.  As she lies down to sleep, she alternates between singing current Music Together songs and talking to herself about stuff she&#8217;s learned that day:  &#8220;Don&#8217;t kick Mama,&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t pull Guss&#8217; tale,&#8221; &#8220;Say hi to your friends,&#8221; &#8220;Go pee pee in the potty,&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t eat the soap.  It doesn&#8217;t taste good&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From birth, Austen focused on physical development. Kicking legs, using hands, pulling up, cruising, walking, running, climbing and now jumping.At around a year, she started focusing on speech, first understanding it and then using it. She now con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}