{"id":1327,"date":"2009-05-09T09:56:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2009-05-09T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T15:56:34","slug":"being-a-good-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/05\/09\/being-a-good-parent\/","title":{"rendered":"being a good parent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In short: we are being brainwashed with fear and it makes us worry that everything we do as parents may be putting our kids in danger. That&#8217;s why we judge other parents so harshly, and why we keep our kids cloistered like Rapunzel. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. As founder of the Free-Range Kids movement\u00e2\u20ac\u201da group of people who believe in giving kids more freedom and responsibility\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmy philosophy is not to throw kids out of the car (sorely tempting though that may be at times). But Free-Range parents\u00c2\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0believe that kids are more capable and competent than we give them credit for. And that, after teaching them basic safety, they need some freedom to develop as smart, happy, responsible humans. Not crazy freedom. Just the kind of freedom we had, back when parenting decisions were not the stuff of national news.<\/p>\n<p>from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/196023\">Time to Stop Judging Other Mothers and Ourselves<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/freerangekids.wordpress.com\/\">Free Range Kids<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the only people who get to judge my parenting are my parents&#8230; and my kids, when they are 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short: we are being brainwashed with fear and it makes us worry that everything we do as parents may be putting our kids in danger. That&#8217;s why we judge other parents so harshly, and why we keep our kids cloistered like Rapunzel. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. As founder of the Free-Range Kids movement\u00e2\u20ac\u201da group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[129,178,181],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-grandparents","tag-parenting","tag-parents"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-lp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}