{"id":275,"date":"2011-04-05T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/?p=275"},"modified":"2011-04-05T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:57:00","slug":"what-a-child-learns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"What a Child Learns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this today in my gran&#8217;s little black &#8216;cookbook,&#8217; a small binder filled to bursting with old wives tales, recipes, kitchen tips, rhymes, alternative healing methods passed down from her mother and aunts, and notes about life in general. I have several of these little binders of hers, and each one is a treasure in and of itself.<\/p>\n<p>This particular piece is uncredited, a snippet of age-yellowed newsprint cut from the weekend edition, or perhaps the old farmer&#8217;s magazine they used to get once in a while. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What a Child Learns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a child lives with criticism,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; He learns to condemn.<\/p>\n<p>If a child lives with hositility,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; He learns to fight.<\/p>\n<p>If a child lives with ridicule,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; He learns to be shy.<\/p>\n<p>If a child lives with shame,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; He learns to feel guilty.<\/p>\n<p>If a child lives with tolerance,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; He learns to be patient.<\/p>\n<p>If a child lives with encouragement,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; He learns to have confidence.<\/p>\n<p>If a child lives with praise,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; He learns to appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>If a child lives with fairness,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; He learns justice.<\/p>\n<p>If a child lives with approval,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; He learns to like himself.<\/p>\n<p>If a child lives with acceptance and friendship,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; He learns to find love in the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Author unknown.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this today in my gran&#8217;s little black &#8216;cookbook,&#8217; a small binder filled to bursting with old wives tales, recipes, kitchen tips, rhymes, alternative healing methods passed down from her mother and aunts, and notes about life in general. I have several of these little binders of hers, and each one is a treasure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,1,5],"tags":[129,87,127,123,122,46,125,124,128,126],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-shadows-2","category-main-sacred-triskele","category-pagan-parenting","tag-behaviour","tag-book-of-shadows","tag-children","tag-cookbook","tag-gran","tag-kids","tag-life","tag-poem","tag-raising-children","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}