{"id":926,"date":"2009-09-06T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T02:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/?p=926"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:06:17","slug":"thoughts-about-naps-and-pacifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2009\/09\/06\/thoughts-about-naps-and-pacifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about naps and pacifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We’ve been pretty irregular with our posts these days. \u00a0One reason is, well, no nap! I miss the nap. \u00a0Not mine, although a regular nap for myself would be wonderful. \u00a0What I miss is Quin’s naptime. \u00a0Quin had an appointment with the dentist this week, and we were reminded yet again that he needs to ditch his pacifier. \u00a0Sure, thank you dentist. \u00a0Thank you pediatrician. \u00a0Thank you everyone who doesn’t currently have to deal with a sad, frustrated three year old at naptime and bedtime. \u00a0I know it doesn’t help his teeth. \u00a0I know it doesn’t help his growth. \u00a0I know it. But what I also know is:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Giving up something that is so ingrained into a routine is not easy. \u00a0It is hard. \u00a0It is hard on the one giving it up. \u00a0It is hard on the ones around the one giving it up.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Giving up something that is well loved produces a sadness that at times is difficult to communicate.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Giving up something as simple as a pacifier really isn’t as simple as all the advisors say it is (at least not when you are walking through it on a daily, moment-by-moment basis).<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0I have often wanted to give in and give Quin his paci back, but I know this wouldn’t help either of us in the long run.<\/p>\n

As I reflect on the week’s events working with Quin, I am reminded again of God’s patience with me. \u00a0I long to extend that same patience to Quin, but it is not coming easily. \u00a0I know there will come a day when I’ll look back at this time and think it wasn’t so difficult. \u00a0I’ll also look back and realize what a huge milestone this is in Quin’s development. \u00a0So why do I feel a sadness about it? \u00a0I suppose that Quin is growing and changing in ways that his mom hadn’t fathomed even just a year ago. \u00a0I suppose I’d like to keep him little and protect him from sadness altogether. But that just isn’t possible and learning to deal with emotions is another part of growing up.<\/p>\n

God give me the patience and wisdom required to shepherd Quin through the giving up of his beloved pacifier. \u00a0Give me grace to be dependent upon you and to point Quin’s dependence to you as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been pretty irregular with our posts these days. \u00a0One reason is, well, no nap! I miss the nap. \u00a0Not mine, although a regular nap for myself would be wonderful. \u00a0What I miss is Quin’s naptime. \u00a0Quin had an appointment with the dentist this week, and we were reminded yet again that he needs to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,75,51],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nap","tag-pacifier","tag-quin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}