{"id":122,"date":"2009-09-14T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2013-11-18T20:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T20:31:40","slug":"pearls-for-your-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Pearls for Your Children — Pot Roast Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a child who was watching their mother prepare a pot roast for their traditional Sunday family dinner.\u00a0 The mother cut off the tips of the roast and put it into the pan.\u00a0 The child asked, \u201cWhy did you cut off the tips of the roast?\u201d\u00a0 The mother replied, \u201cThat\u2019s how my mother prepared it.\u00a0 She\u2019s in the other room, why don\u2019t you go and ask here.\u201d\u00a0 The child then asked the grandmother, \u201cHow come when you prepare a roast you cut off the tips of the roast before you put it into the pan?\u201d\u00a0 \"pot<\/a>The grandmother replied, \u201cWell, that\u2019s how my mother did it.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t you go ask her.\u201d\u00a0 So, once again the child went to her great-grandmother and said, \u201cI asked Mom and Grandma why they cut off the tips of the roast before they put it into the pan and they each told me to ask you.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWell,\u201d the great-grandmother said, \u201cI don\u2019t know why they are doing it\u2026but I did it because the roast we bought always 10\u201d in diameter but the pan we had was 8\u201d in diameter\u201d<\/p>\n

Points to consider and ask your son or daughter:<\/p>\n

Do you see our family as respecting the value of inquiry?\u00a0 Do you see us respecting your curiosity?\u00a0 Let them know you welcome their questions when asked with an intent to understand something that helps them think for themselves and make informed choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a child who was watching their mother prepare a pot roast for their traditional Sunday family dinner.\u00a0 The mother cut off the tips of the roast and put it into the pan.\u00a0 The child asked, \u201cWhy did you cut off the tips of the roast?\u201d\u00a0 The mother replied, \u201cThat\u2019s how my mother prepared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12,13,18,14],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-children","tag-learning","tag-parenting","tag-respect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}