{"id":1552,"date":"2010-09-12T19:56:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T01:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2010-09-12T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T01:57:07","slug":"raising-minimalist-children-in-a-society-of-excess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2010\/09\/12\/raising-minimalist-children-in-a-society-of-excess\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Minimalist Children in a Society of Excess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturemoms.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/01\/raising-minimalist-children-in-a-society-of-excess\/\">Raising Minimalist Children in a Society of Excess<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel guilty. Modern parents are made to feel as if they are depriving their children of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe best\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 if they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sign them up for every lesson, take them to every movie, or buy them every brain-enhancing toy. Advertising companies are paying billions of dollars to make you think this. It is not reality\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it is a fictional version of reality they are selling. Let it go. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbuy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 into it. You are not depriving your children; you are enhancing their mental and emotional development by letting the real world around them captivate and interest them. Do you think the Smiths\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 kids are really better off because they spend all their free time in front of a television or playing with a DSI?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising Minimalist Children in a Society of Excess: &#8220;Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel guilty. Modern parents are made to feel as if they are depriving their children of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe best\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 if they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sign them up for every lesson, take them to every movie, or buy them every brain-enhancing toy. Advertising companies are paying billions of dollars to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[179,213],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-kids","tag-minimalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-p2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","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=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}