{"id":819,"date":"2009-06-14T23:04:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T03:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=819"},"modified":"2009-06-14T23:04:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T03:04:06","slug":"loving-along-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"Loving Along the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of all my efforts as a mother, my children will not wake up one morning and be perfect.  Just as I will never &#8220;arrive&#8221; as a mother, they will never &#8220;arrive&#8221; as children.  My work is to companion them on their journeys, guiding, loving, and teaching them to love themselves along the way.  Maybe that&#8217;s what our responsibility is to ourselves, too, as parents &#8212; loving ourselves at our best, in uncertainty, and in spite of flat-out failure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Lisa Groen Braner, <em>The Mother&#8217;s Book of Well-Being,<\/em> p. 168<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of all my efforts as a mother, my children will not wake up one morning and be perfect. Just as I will never &#8220;arrive&#8221; as a mother, they will never &#8220;arrive&#8221; as children. My work is to companion them on their journeys, guiding, loving, and teaching them to love themselves along the way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-love","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}