{"id":735,"date":"2009-10-14T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2009-10-14T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T20:52:00","slug":"reality-check-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/StZJuqoat2I\/AAAAAAAACbE\/RfwBIPX73Iw\/s1600-h\/8919_182941075827_568215827_3839637_7976659_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/StZJuqoat2I\/AAAAAAAACbE\/RfwBIPX73Iw\/s400\/8919_182941075827_568215827_3839637_7976659_n.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392578669889369954\" \/><\/a><br \/>Today I dropped by the school to take care of a few things.  As I was walking out of the office, I see Josh standing against the wall with his teacher talking to him.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He sees me.  Darn.  He is not behaving&#8230; he is waiting for his teacher to take off his boots, jacket etc., when he can do so himself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He sees me and the tears come.  How that broke my heart yet I knew to leave and let his teacher deal with him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My stomach was churning.  I never have left him crying.  Maybe there in lies the problem.<\/div>\n<div>As I was retelling the story to Sanj, he just looks at me.  <\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He is a spoiled brat, isn&#8217;t he?&#8221;  I ask.<\/div>\n<div>My husband just nods and smiles.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This child is loved so much by his family.  He is doted on by all.  He knows he has everyone wrapped around his fingers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But in the real world  there are certain realities that he has to discover.<\/div>\n<div>It is not all about him.<\/div>\n<div>Sigh.  I am still trying to learn that myself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I dropped by the school to take care of a few things. As I was walking out of the office, I see Josh standing against the wall with his teacher talking to him. He sees me. Darn. He is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=735\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}