{"id":347,"date":"2020-07-09T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2021-06-17T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T17:19:32","slug":"the-value-of-time-and-a-childs-love-during-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/the-value-of-time-and-a-childs-love-during-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Time and a Child&#8217;s Love During Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, these past few months have been a struggle and a joy at the same time.\u00a0 I choose to see it as an enlightening experience more than anything.\u00a0 Mostly because it has allowed me to reevaluate what I hold to be valuable in my life.\u00a0 Time.<\/p>\n<p>Time is finite, and while it seems to move slowly for some, for me it seems to be moving to fast.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t make more time out of nothing.\u00a0 But what I can do is make the time I have to offer as valuable as possible.\u00a0 As a parent, we tend to undervalue the worth of what our time means to our kids.\u00a0 If we could step into their shoes we would be able to see that they place a far greater value on spending time with us than we could ever imagine.\u00a0 I&#8217;d contend it&#8217;s because a child&#8217;s love can be so raw and unfiltered.\u00a0 They want to share their love because it&#8217;s constantly bubbling up inside each of them.\u00a0 They want to express themselves and feel our warmth of love on the receiving end.\u00a0 In many regards, it&#8217;s a very simple arrangement.\u00a0 If you will give me just a fraction of time, I&#8217;ll give you a mountain of love.\u00a0 For me, that is one of the most amazing attributes of a child.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s also something we should all aspire to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, these past few months have been a struggle and a joy at the same time.\u00a0 I choose to see it as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"2","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting","tag-childs-love","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankingondad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}