{"id":2618,"date":"2019-07-11T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2019-07-26T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:58:11","slug":"purposeful-parenting-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2618","title":{"rendered":"Purposeful Parenting Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chang-duong-DUCYytXjsFE-unsplash.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2631 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chang-duong-DUCYytXjsFE-unsplash-1024x551.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chang-duong-DUCYytXjsFE-unsplash-200x108.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chang-duong-DUCYytXjsFE-unsplash-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chang-duong-DUCYytXjsFE-unsplash-400x215.jpg 400w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chang-duong-DUCYytXjsFE-unsplash-600x323.jpg 600w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chang-duong-DUCYytXjsFE-unsplash-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chang-duong-DUCYytXjsFE-unsplash-800x431.jpg 800w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chang-duong-DUCYytXjsFE-unsplash-1024x551.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chang-duong-DUCYytXjsFE-unsplash-1200x646.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi, Parents!\u00a0 In a world that craves constant stimulation and entertainment, I have some advice for you. <strong>Allow your children to be bored<\/strong>\u2014yes, you heard that right. The next time your child comes to you with the \u201cI\u2019m bored\u201d complaint, ask them to go explore and discover something they can teach to you.\u00a0 Or you can ask them to create something with the talents and interests that are unique to them and their personality. Allow them to engage their creative minds.<\/p>\n<p>In an article on PBS Kids for Parents site, the Kratt Brothers, Chris &amp; Martin, who host the TV show, Wild Kratts, shared a portion of their childhood story.\u00a0 They tell of camping in Vermont in a pop-up trailer in a wide open field.\u00a0 They had nothing to entertain them, so they would explore and create their own adventures.\u00a0 These explorations led them to study zoology and biology which launched them into what they love to do today.\u00a0 Something great happened because the Kratt brothers were \u201cbored\u201d.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a quote from the article:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoredom leads kids to flex their creative muscles. It gives them time to think a little bit, to breathe, explore, and figure out their own interests.\u00a0<strong>It may be difficult at first, but if you give kids space to get bored, you\u2019ll be amazed by the creative ways they\u2019ll fill their time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To read the entire article, click <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/app.public.pbs.org\/e\/es?s=2143&amp;e=1667283&amp;elqTrackId=1a64d24fdfcf43919ad0ceebc90f9c5d&amp;elq=610a303f1eb740cc820aa0ccec719f9d&amp;elqaid=3729&amp;elqat=1\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Parents!\u00a0 In a world that craves constant stimulation and entertainment, I have some advice for you. Allow your children to be bored\u2014yes, you heard that right. The next time your child comes to you with the \u201cI\u2019m bored\u201d complaint, ask them to go explore and discover something they can teach to you.\u00a0 Or you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}