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If you find that your child doesn’t like playing independently and always needs you around, you may be making one big mistake, according to one mum who shares her research-based parenting guidance online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you find that your child doesn’t like playing independently and always needs you around, you may be making one big mistake, according…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4601,"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annafaltermeier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}