{"id":68489,"date":"2024-02-21T14:53:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T07:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=68489"},"modified":"2024-02-21T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T07:53:42","slug":"someday-ill-tell-my-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/someday-ill-tell-my-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Someday I\u2019ll Tell My Children"},"content":{"rendered":"
Someday, when my child is old enough to appreciate what motivates and parent and makes them do what they do, I\u2019ll tell them\u2026\n I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, who you were with, and what time would you be home.\n I loved you enough to worry and nag you about your health.\n I loved you enough to choose your temporary upset, in the hope that the lessons would bring you longterm happiness.\n I loved you enough to be \u201coverprotective.\u201d\n I loved you enough to not make excuses for your bad manners and lack of respect.\n I loved you enough to choose to put myself last, every day.\n I loved you enough to ignore what \u201cevery other parent\u201d did.\n I loved you enough to remove people that loved from my life, so that could protect you.\n I loved you enough to let you stumble, fail, and fall so that you could learn to stand alone.\n But most of all, I loved you enough to risk you hating me for decisions that I made in the hope that I was doing what was best for you\u2026that was the hardest part of all.\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-\n So, what will be some things that you share with your child or children when the right time comes?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someday, when my child is old enough to appreciate what motivates and parent and makes them do what they do, I\u2019ll tell them\u2026 I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, who you were with, and what time would you be home. I loved you enough to worry and nag you\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":68490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Someday, when my child is old enough to appreciate what motivates and parent and makes them do what they do, I\u2019ll tell them\u2026","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moral-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Someday-Ill-Tell-My-Children.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}