{"id":246,"date":"2012-02-17T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/our-children\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T08:10:00","slug":"our-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/our-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ksdlw35t<\/a><\/p>\n

I've been thinking a lot about our children lately, specifically my own. I've spent much time wondering what the world will look like when they're (Lord willing) adults and how I can help prepare them.<\/p>\n

The following are some thoughts:<\/p>\n

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  1. I need to pour into them wisdom about handling money and power. Looking around me it's clear this is not taught in the university or the business arena. I think we know what happens when people don't know how to handle these beasts.<\/li>\n
  2. I can't depend on the current education system to provide significant support. I often think our education system is teaching in a form appropriate for 30 years ago.<\/li>\n
  3. Our government (America in this case) is content to make it difficult (massive debt)for my children to prosper economically. I don't want my government to help my children with their careers, but I do want them to manage with excellence the resources given and to get out of the way.<\/li>\n
  4. I need to, on an exhausting and repetitive basis, remind them that they are unique and should live life accordingly.<\/li>\n
  5. I need to teach them the value of loving God and loving other people (regardless of who they may be).<\/li>\n
  6. I need to model everything I teach every day, every day.<\/li>\n
  7. I need to encourage them to be risk-takers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I've been thinking a lot about our children lately, specifically my own. I've spent much time wondering what the world will look like when they're (Lord willing) adults and how I can help prepare them. The following are some thoughts: I need to pour into them wisdom about handling money and power. Looking around me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,364,6],"tags":[23,980,982,298,981,326,979,983,492],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-current-affairs","category-learning","tag-career","tag-children-needs","tag-childrens-welfare","tag-education","tag-government","tag-kids","tag-our-children","tag-teach","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}