{"id":18865,"date":"2017-11-17T05:08:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T10:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=18865"},"modified":"2017-11-15T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T01:25:04","slug":"way-november-17-2017-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/way-november-17-2017-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way, November 17, 2017 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo_061710_022-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo_061710_022-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo_061710_022-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo_061710_022.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo_061710_022-600x480.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When I was a teenager my Dad often said to me, &#8220;Lori, you just can&#8217;t see the way clearly. I have lived longer, the door is opened wider to me. You have a door but it is barely cracked open. You have to trust that I know the way a little better than you do.&#8221; It drove me a bit crazy, if I am being honest! As a teenager, I sincerely thought I knew what I wanted and needed and could predict what would happen with different choices. I was right sometimes and other times I was wrong. My Dad had more years, experience and wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have teenagers! I have lived longer, experienced more, have more knowledge, vision, and understanding of the world. I have more wisdom, so much so that I am very cautious with how I dish it out. I don&#8217;t want to sound condescending (my Dad never did), but I also don&#8217;t want to let it go and watch as they suffer. Parenting is a guessing game, a balancing act, to guide but not hold the reigns, to suggest but not control, so I pray and keep the conversation open at all times for discussion. As a teen I knew that no matter what the situation I could always talk to my parents. They opened that door at a young age and never closed it. So that&#8217;s what I have done with my children and teens. It&#8217;s much more challenging when you know the way and are not sure the best options of teaching it. I am not through this stage at all but so far prayers, and open communication work best for me and mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to do with teens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[292,234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}