{"id":108,"date":"2008-03-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-03-18T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T10:00:00","slug":"trouble-with-scissors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Trouble with Scissors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know what the trouble with scissors is?<\/p>\n

Two Year Olds.<\/p>\n

We taught Bridget to cut with child scissors several months ago. She’s decent at it. She can hold the scissors correctly, and she can snip at the paper making small cuts. She can’t yet cut on a line, or curve. . . but she’s learning.<\/p>\n

Once, not too long after she starting learning to cut, she accidentally cut her pants – she had the paper on her lap. She was devastated. . . until I patched them. For a long time she would talk about what happened to her pants every time she wore them, and every time she cut with scissors. She would tell me to be careful with scissors – not to cut my clothes. She seemed to understand.<\/p>\n

But then, a couple of days ago. . .<\/p>\n


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\nAlas! At least it was an old, well-abused, shirt. I threw it away.<\/p>\n

Now, she is not allowed to cut for a week. And after that she can only use scissors if we are watching her closely.<\/p>\n

The thing is, she knew it was wrong. When I came downstairs she immediately stopped in her tracks and gave me the deer in the headlights look. Why is it that little kids defy the rules? Why do they have to see how far they can push you? This isn’t the only thing. She’s been crazy lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you know what the trouble with scissors is? Two Year Olds. We taught Bridget to cut with child scissors several months ago. She’s decent at it. She can hold the scissors correctly, and she can snip at the paper making small cuts. She can’t yet cut on a line, or curve. . . but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}