{"id":396,"date":"2011-04-28T16:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T21:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T21:01:21","slug":"opas-counseling-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/28\/opas-counseling-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Opa&#8217;s counseling session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to IKEA meant an opportunity for me to &quot;counsel&quot; my new grandson Dylan.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A flight to Dallas to spend a few days with our daughter and grandchildren <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:12px;padding-top:7px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/BILDER\/2011-04-28.jpg\" title=\"Opa and Dylan\" alt=\"Opa and Dylan\" height=\"314\" width=\"275\" \/> meant a brief counseling session for Opa (me!) and my new grandson Dylan. A morning shopping trip to IKEA was on the day&#8217;s agenda and with his older brothers in school, Dylan had the chance to accompany his mom, Oma and me to IKEA. He wasn&#8217;t so interested in all of the furniture variations and furnishings, so at one point Opa and Dylan had a little chat while the ladies looked for stuff. In a little over two months he has gone from his birth weight of 10 pounds, six ounces to 13 pounds &ndash; all on mother&#8217;s milk! Dylan is a good-natured little fellow, he seldom fusses much. He reminds me a lot of his mom when she was little. The counseling session was interesting since Dylan is just now becoming aware of the sounds that he makes, so Opa imitated him a bit to see if he would respond. On this particular occasion he did not answer, but he listened very intently to what Opa had to tell him. It won&#8217;t be long before he recognizes the non-language exchange of sounds between himself and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to IKEA meant an opportunity for me to &quot;counsel&quot; my new grandson Dylan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}