{"id":1309,"date":"2013-02-06T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:31:13","slug":"puppies-and-young-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/puppies-and-young-children","title":{"rendered":"Puppies And Young Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"a new puppy\" border=\"2\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4172.JPG\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"300\" \/><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">A new puppy is a lot like a young child. &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">They both:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">grow fast<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">get out of sorts.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">develop&nbsp; &ldquo;growing pains&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">It took me a few days of total chaos around here to figure out that the puppy was growing so fast her body became unfamiliar to her. &nbsp; She ran around yipping, biting, and basically being obnoxious! &nbsp; She didn&#39;t know &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">if she was hungry<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">if she was tired<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">if she wanted to play<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">if she wanted to sleep<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">&nbsp; So after missing the obvious for a bit I figured it out&hellip;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Puppies are a lot like young children!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">I remembered that when my son was young he often acted in similar ways. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">He would want to eat but then not eat. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">He would act like he was tired and wanted to take a nap but then jumped up quickly to go play with something&hellip; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">So what I did with puppy was what I used do with my son: <b>Massages!<\/b> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">It works! She relaxes and then sleeps.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" border=\"2\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0001.JPG\" width=\"350\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>YES!!<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color:red;\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"color:red;\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"color:red;\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"color:red;\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"color:red;\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"color:red;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Comments? Thank you!!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new puppy is a lot like a young child. &nbsp; &nbsp; They both: grow fast get out of sorts. develop&nbsp; &ldquo;growing pains&rdquo; It took me a few days of total chaos around here to figure out that the puppy was growing so fast her body became unfamiliar to her. &nbsp; She ran around yipping, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[494],"tags":[532,385,480,524],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting-2","tag-child-development","tag-human-interest","tag-parenting","tag-puppy","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}