{"id":450,"date":"2014-10-20T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/2014-10-20-no-control-at-all\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:51:19","slug":"2014-10-20-no-control-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/20\/2014-10-20-no-control-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"No Control at All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am unable to make my daughter do what I want.<br \/>\nGiven my perspectives on parenting, I would have thought I would understand this by now, and, in fact, would not WANT to control her. No. I still, at times, want to make her do what I know she needs to do.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Sunday, she had a fever and a runny nose &amp; sore throat. I know what she needs: liquids. She needs to drink lots.<\/p>\n<p>I offer: Tea. Water. Smoothie. Lemon water. Fruit.<br \/>\nDoes she drink?<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nHardly anything at all.<br \/>\nLess than she normally drinks.<br \/>\nThe colour of her pee: definitely yellow.<br \/>\nAt one point, she had three different liquid offerings sitting on her table.<br \/>\nBy the end of the day, I can&#8217;t even remember if she got through one whole glass.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage. I offer. I put the straw in her mouth. I tweak taste. I talk rationally about it. I pass her the water bottle. I make it serious, casual, fun.<br \/>\nNothing works!!!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, this parenting thing is exhausting. I can&#8217;t believe how ridiculously difficult it is to take care of my daughter in the most basic of ways.<\/p>\n<p>Good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am unable to make my daughter do what I want. Given my perspectives on parenting, I would have thought I would understand this by now, and, in fact, would not WANT to control her. No. I still, at times, want to make her do what I know she needs to do. Starting Sunday, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}