{"id":5040,"date":"2014-10-08T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T22:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2014-10-04T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T22:55:00","slug":"children-are-happy-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/children-are-happy-because\/","title":{"rendered":"Children are Happy Because"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u201cChildren are happy because they don\u2019t have a file in their minds called, \u201cAll the Things That Could Go Wrong.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 &#8211; Marianne Williamson<\/p>\n<p>That is SO TRUE!\u00a0 You don\u2019t see little kids worried about what could go wrong!\u00a0 They are far too busy being focused on what they plan to accomplish.\u00a0 Kids create, they get dirty, the run, they play, they laugh, they smile, they dance, they learn, they try!<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t see or think about the negatives. When it rains they simply see mud puddles waiting to be jumped in.\u00a0 When it snows they see snowmen waiting to be built.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t care what other people think.\u00a0 They don\u2019t care at all if their outfit matches. They simply wear whatever is their favorite and they wear it with confidence and pride.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t care if something is beyond their skill set and they certainly don\u2019t care about being seen as failures.\u00a0 If they want to play baseball they are going to play it, even if they have no idea what direction to run around the bases.\u00a0 All that matters it they are doing something fun.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t care if their meal is served on fine china with linen napkins. Heck they will eat their food right off the floor.\u00a0 So long as it tastes good they are happy.<\/p>\n<p>Kids don\u2019t pass judgment on other people.\u00a0 They assume everyone is great until someone informs them otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>We could learn so many lesson from children.\u00a0 Today\u2019s challenge is to BE MORE LIKE CHILDREN!!! Play, have fun, don\u2019t judge, smile, be positive, dance, run, imagine, laugh\u2026.have a great day!<\/p>\n<p>~Amy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChildren are happy because they don\u2019t have a file in their minds called, \u201cAll the Things That Could Go Wrong.\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; Marianne Williamson That is SO TRUE!\u00a0 You don\u2019t see little kids worried about what could go wrong!\u00a0 They are far too busy being focused on what they plan to accomplish.\u00a0 Kids create, they get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5102,240,163,89,218,51,132,55,180,5103,158,464,324,3584,233,35,5100,217,1745,821,153,5101,1897,81],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-be-fun","tag-children","tag-courage","tag-dance","tag-failure","tag-family","tag-fun","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-have-fun","tag-imagination","tag-joy","tag-judgment","tag-kids","tag-learn","tag-love","tag-marianne-williamson","tag-negative","tag-optimism","tag-play","tag-positive","tag-run","tag-skills","tag-smile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}