{"id":231,"date":"2009-11-17T15:08:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T20:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daverowe.wpengine.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2009-11-17T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T20:08:54","slug":"six-things-parents-really-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Six Things Parents Really Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Frank Luntz \u2013 What Americans Really Want\u2026 Really.\n<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Borba \u2013 The Big Book of Parenting Solutions\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Eat Dinner as a Family at least 5 nights a week \u2013 Shows that the family comes first.  Not your work, not the stuff you&#8217;re buying.  If you&#8217;re not home with your kids it&#8217;s showing that they are second or third on your priorities.\n<\/li>\n<li>Take your kids to church weekly \u2013 It&#8217;s the idea that there is something out there bigger than you.  If you respect this, then you&#8217;ll have respect for yourself and others.  Family Mantra statement = This is what we stand for and believe in.\n<\/li>\n<li>Check your kids homework \u2013 Shows that intellectual development is just as important as the physical\n<\/li>\n<li>Demand the truth and get it \u2013 you will reduce your risk by \u00bc if you are hands on and know where your kids are, monitor them, and be involved.\n<\/li>\n<li>Take your Kids on vacation for a week at a time and LEAVE your Blackberry \u2013 Don&#8217;t be distracted.  Don&#8217;t let the kids be distracted when you are talking to them.\n<\/li>\n<li>Encourage your kids to participate in team sports\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Dr. Frank Luntz \u2013 What Americans Really Want\u2026 Really. Michelle Borba \u2013 The Big Book of Parenting Solutions \u00a0 Eat Dinner as a Family at least 5 nights a week \u2013 Shows that the family comes first. Not your work, not the stuff you&#8217;re buying. If you&#8217;re not home with your kids it&#8217;s showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}