{"id":7016,"date":"2017-03-18T00:07:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7016"},"modified":"2017-03-18T00:07:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:07:01","slug":"the-dangers-of-the-good-child-the-book-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/18\/the-dangers-of-the-good-child-the-book-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of the Good Child &#124; The Book of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Many good children are good out of love of a depressed harassed parent who makes it clear they just couldn\u2019t cope with any more complications or difficulties. Or maybe they are very good to soothe a violently angry parent who could become catastrophically frightening at any sign of less than perfect conduct. Or perhaps the parent was very busy and distracted; only by being very good could the child \u00a0hope to gain a sliver of their interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>But this repression of more challenging emotions, though it produces short-term pleasant obedience, stores up a huge amount of difficulty in later life. Practiced educators and parents should spot signs of exaggerated politeness \u2013 and treat them as the danger they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookoflife.org\/the-dangers-of-the-good-child\/\">The Dangers of the Good Child | The Book of Life<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many good children are good out of love of a depressed harassed parent who makes it clear they just couldn\u2019t cope with any more complications or difficulties. Or maybe they are very good to soothe a violently angry parent who could become catastrophically frightening at any sign of less than perfect conduct. Or perhaps the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/18\/the-dangers-of-the-good-child-the-book-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dangers of the Good Child &#124; The Book of Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}