{"id":341,"date":"2010-09-24T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2010-09-24T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T21:01:00","slug":"mama-be-straight-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Mama Be Straight With Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TJ0U0GjGO4I\/AAAAAAAAJPU\/l3VSStMeooc\/s1600\/DSC08862edit.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 170px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TJ0U0GjGO4I\/AAAAAAAAJPU\/l3VSStMeooc\/s320\/DSC08862edit.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520591603569671042\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Perhaps it was the farm life style that lent a hand to my parents ability to be very honest with me about life and death growing up&#8230; maybe it was how they where raised&#8230;. I always like to examine how they did things.  Then I fiddle with it in my head and try to figure out why they did it the way they did but even if I don&#8217;t get a juicy answers I appreciate when they did it right.  As a parent myself I know a lot of what goes on is &#8216;flying by the seat of your pants&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Honesty between my kids and I is such a blessing.<\/p>\n<p>I knew my mom would answer what ever questions about life I had.  She told me today she felt like she was giving me another building block of life, something that would make me healthier and stronger in a scary world, when I would ask her big questions and she could give me a straight answer.  It was like a victory, to get there before someone else, someone less concerned with me as a person, delivered the misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>My oldest three already approach their Dad and I, at random, with BIG questions and it is a good feeling to stop, pray, think about it, and give them a clear answer.  They might have a few more connected questions but usually it is a short chat and they walk away with a confidence that they aren&#8217;t in the dark.  I am so thankful for open communication with my kids.  I pray for mama wisdom a great deal and I pray they continue to let me help them in this way.<\/p>\n<p><span>TTFN<\/span><br \/><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it was the farm life style that lent a hand to my parents ability to be very honest with me about life and death growing up&#8230; maybe it was how they where raised&#8230;. I always like to examine how they did things. Then I fiddle with it in my head and try to figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}