{"id":2149,"date":"2009-04-13T03:42:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T08:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2009-04-13T03:42:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T08:42:53","slug":"spicing-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2149","title":{"rendered":"Spicing it Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2009\/03\/28\/Green-Eggs-and-Toast\">Green Eggs and Toast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changing standard storytelling as an exercise in challenging kids.  Plus, it&#8217;s fun.  I&#8217;ve done these and similar things with my nieces.  The fill-in-the-last-word is something I learned from someone with a background in child development, and the replace-a-word I do just because I love kids&#8217; sense of the absurd (and finding the line where pretending becomes <em>just silly<\/em>).  Changing the story has its dangers, though \u2014 it can be upsetting if you aren&#8217;t doing it right and the child isn&#8217;t in the mood for it.<\/p>\n<p>Uncle&#8217;s tip:  Always negotiate how many time you&#8217;re expected to read the book <em>before<\/em> you start.  They&#8217;re minors and contracts aren&#8217;t legally binding, but it&#8217;s some leverage, at least.  You get tired of reading the book long before they tire of hearing it \u2026 again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/04\/green-eggs-and-toast\">via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Eggs and Toast Changing standard storytelling as an exercise in challenging kids. Plus, it&#8217;s fun. I&#8217;ve done these and similar things with my nieces. The fill-in-the-last-word is something I learned from someone with a background in child development, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-y-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}