{"id":2247,"date":"2008-02-03T19:20:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T03:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/02\/03\/recipe-for-fun\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:37:56","slug":"recipe-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/02\/03\/recipe-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe For Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<p>1 nearly five-month old baby<br \/>\nPet store<br \/>\nParakeets in a big cage<br \/>\nYourself<\/p>\n<p>Take the baby into the pet store and push the stroller in front of the parakeet cage. Tap gently on the cage containing about 12 blue, green, and yellow parakeets. Say the baby&#8217;s name to get her attention and encourage her to gaze toward the cage. Observe the baby observing the parakeets as they flit, screech, tweet, twitter, and hop from branch to dangling toys to feeder. Notice baby&#8217;s rapt attention. When she turns to you with her first smile of enjoyment, exclaim how fun it is, smile back, and act excited. Watch her smile and giggle, then turn her attention back to the birds, then look again at you giggling and smiling. Continue for as many minutes as the baby finds it interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Savor. Have as many as helpings as you can as often as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Other fun: machines that do nifty things such as clean rug spots by themselves. Now that our cat is becoming older and has more, ahem, stomach and potty issues, and now that we have a child who will soon be eating solids and who drools a lot now, this seemed like a good purchase.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2241114692\/\" title=\"what parents buy for fun by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2415\/2241114692_9271a50920.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"what parents buy for fun\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients: 1 nearly five-month old baby Pet store Parakeets in a big cage Yourself Take the baby into the pet store and push the stroller in front of the parakeet cage. Tap gently on the cage containing about 12 blue, green, and yellow parakeets. Say the baby&#8217;s name to get her attention and encourage her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,34,27,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-motherhood","category-recreation","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4553,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}