{"id":638,"date":"2008-10-13T23:55:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/10\/13\/like-being-a-child\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T23:55:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T03:55:11","slug":"like-being-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Like Being a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you try to see being a parent as something bound and dictated by certain behaviors and rules, you are in for big trouble.\u00c2\u00a0 Being a parent is no different than being a child.\u00c2\u00a0 If it becomes a set of rigid rules you must live by, life loses its joy and becomes a state of constant criticism.\u00c2\u00a0 Talk with your mate, too, about giving yourselves some of the freedom the children have.\u00c2\u00a0 Make fun of yourselves and your quirks so you can laugh and relax. The world is a serious enough place.\u00c2\u00a0 Lighten up and be a joyful example to your family rather than a slave to the arbitrary expectations of conformity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bernie Siegel, MD, <em>Love, Magic &#038; Mudpies, <\/em>p. 76<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you try to see being a parent as something bound and dictated by certain behaviors and rules, you are in for big trouble.\u00c2\u00a0 Being a parent is no different than being a child.\u00c2\u00a0 If it becomes a set of rigid rules you must live by, life loses its joy and becomes a state of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}