{"id":187,"date":"2007-11-11T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T01:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/11\/11\/empowering-children\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T21:14:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T01:14:47","slug":"empowering-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest leverage parents have to help and guide children is to form strong, resentment-free emotional bonds with them, based on value, mutual respect, and <em>empowerment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Empowerment <\/strong>gives someone the right and the confidence to offer solutions to problems that respect the best interests of all involved.\u00c2\u00a0 In other words, it activates Core Value and motivations to improve, appreciate, connect, and protect.<\/p>\n<p>The trick in empowering children is to get them to come up with solutions that work for them <em>and <\/em>you.\u00c2\u00a0 When <em>they <\/em>come up with the solutions, you avoid power struggles, resentment, and hostility.\u00c2\u00a0 Most people, including children, like to <em>cooperate, <\/em>but hate to <em>submit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Steven Stosny, <em>Manual of the Core Value Workshop, <\/em>p. 51<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest leverage parents have to help and guide children is to form strong, resentment-free emotional bonds with them, based on value, mutual respect, and empowerment. Empowerment gives someone the right and the confidence to offer solutions to problems that respect the best interests of all involved.\u00c2\u00a0 In other words, it activates Core Value and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}