{"id":1764,"date":"2011-04-24T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","slug":"day-160-toy-handcuffs-throw-before-somebody-gets-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1764","title":{"rendered":"Day 160 – Toy Handcuffs (Throw … before somebody gets hurt!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was called into the boys’ room this evening to the sight of Dats (age 9) squirming around with his wrists handcuffed together behind his back.\u00a0 And these aren’t the cheap plastic type – they are full-on metal.\u00a0 We eventually freed one hand, but the other side of the cuffs was stuck and getting tighter.\u00a0 It seemed to have something jammed into its “lock” mechanism.\u00a0 Once we finally pried\u00a0the cuffs completely off, Melissa insisted we throw these things away.\u00a0 OK by me since I hadn’t yet found anything to toss today. I love a good excuse to throw some of the kids’ toys away – especially since they tend to collect\u00a0new toys \u00a0faster than we can dispense with the old ones.\u00a0 The other day\u00a0I took\u00a0The Princess\u00a0(age 4) out to lunch – just the two of us – on an impromptu date since The Drama Queen (now age 9) had banned The Princess from a birthday tea party.\u00a0 The Princess and I had a great meal together and then popped over to Walmart for a few items on my grocery list.\u00a0 I told The Princess that she could get a SMALL toy since she had been so good.\u00a0 She said, “Yeah, I already have lots of BIG toys, so I don’t need anymore big toys… but I do need more small toys.”\u00a0 I told her that she actually had plenty of each, but that I would be happy to get her something small.\u00a0 All the toys that caught her eye were in the twenty to thirty dollar range!\u00a0 After getting a few NOs from me, she finally said, “Well, show me which toys are ON SALE.” After looping up and\u00a0down several aisles and still not finding any toys that interested her but were in my price range, she lamented in a sad little voice, “Well, I guess I’m not going to get a small toy today….” I was so proud, thinking that my little girl was going to just let it go so easily! But then she perked up and proclaimed, “I’m just going to have to get a BIG toy!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was called into the boys’ room this evening to the sight of Dats (age 9) squirming around with his wrists handcuffed together behind his back.\u00a0 And these aren’t the cheap plastic type – they are full-on metal.\u00a0 We eventually freed one hand, but the other side of the cuffs was stuck and getting tighter.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}