{"id":19,"date":"2009-08-04T09:26:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-09-11T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T15:18:22","slug":"red-light-green-light-yellow-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Red Light \/ Green Light \/ Yellow Light&#8211;The Art of Making Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask your adolescent (as well as yourself) the following question:\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100\" style=\"padding-left: 10px\" title=\"traffic_lights_narrowweb__300x425,0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/traffic_lights_narrowweb__300x4250.jpg\" alt=\"traffic_lights_narrowweb__300x425,0\" width=\"100\" height=\"142\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/traffic_lights_narrowweb__300x4250.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/traffic_lights_narrowweb__300x4250-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>When you are driving or when you are with someone who is driving, and the light turns yellow, what do you do?\u00a0 Often times the answer is \u201cI speed up and I go through it.\u201d\u00a0 You might then say, \u201cThat\u2019s interesting because in the driver\u2019s manual the instruction is \u201cprepare to stop.\u201d So, what\u2019s the point of this conversation with them?\u00a0 It would be good for them to know that red means stop, green means go and yellow means prepare to stop.\u00a0 Actually, when we see green it means go after checking oncoming traffic from both sides.\u00a0 And when the light is yellow it means prepare to stop unless doing so puts you in the middle of the intersection\u2014then it means proceed and put yourself out of harm\u2019s way.\u00a0 <!--more-->What is it that you are trying to tell your teen-ager?\u00a0 \u201cIn any situation\u00a0in any moment, you can ask yourself, \u2018if I were driving does this situation feel like a red, green or yellow light.\u2019\u00a0 If you are uncertain, then consider it a yellow light and prepare to stop and re-evaluate.\u201d Red=stop; Green=proceed; Yellow=prepare to stop\/pause\/consider.\u00a0\u00a0 Tell your adolescent if they can\u2019t get a sense of the color then consider the situation the same as a yellow light.<\/p>\n<p>Even though we know that the capacity to reflect is still in its development stage and they may not fully comprehend what we are saying, it is good to share this metaphor with them.\u00a0 Just because they may have difficulty computing it doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t register it and file it away and recall it as they live into the days, weeks, months and years of their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask your adolescent (as well as yourself) the following question:\u00a0 When you are driving or when you are with someone who is driving, and the light turns yellow, what do you do?\u00a0 Often times the answer is \u201cI speed up and I go through it.\u201d\u00a0 You might then say, \u201cThat\u2019s interesting because in the driver\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","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=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}