{"id":157,"date":"2020-03-23T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/?p=157"},"modified":"2020-03-24T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T17:55:42","slug":"giving-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/2020\/03\/23\/giving-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3077\/2020\/03\/th-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160\" width=\"255\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3077\/2020\/03\/th-4.jpg 315w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3077\/2020\/03\/th-4-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Offering your child choices throughout the day is a great way to work on their communication skills.&nbsp; When a child has choices they feel like they have control over a situation and also feel like they are in charge.&nbsp; Start small by offering your child two choices in different ways throughout the day.&nbsp; Some simple ways you can work on this at home include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Offer two snack options<\/li><li>Show your child two different books and have them choose which one they\u2019d like you to read<\/li><li>Show your child two different toys and have them choose which one they\u2019d like to play with<\/li><li>Offer different cups to drink out of<\/li><li>Show them two shirts and let them pick which one to wear<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offering your child choices throughout the day is a great way to work on their communication skills.&nbsp; When a child has choices they feel like they have control over a situation and also feel like they are in charge.&nbsp; Start small by offering your child two choices in different ways throughout the day.&nbsp; Some simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/msfontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}