{"id":234507,"date":"2010-01-27T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=139444"},"modified":"2010-01-27T01:00:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:00:52","slug":"teach-children-to-have-%e2%80%9cmagical%e2%80%9d-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/234507","title":{"rendered":"Teach Children to Have \u201cMagical\u201d Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Dallas Franklin, commented recently that her motto for 2010 is, <em>&#8220;I expect magic and miracles in my life.&#8221;<\/em>Why not be determined to have &#8220;magical&#8221; days yourself and teach your children to have this attitude.\u00a0 So many youngsters I encounter in my work as a substitute teacher seem\u00a0 unenthusiastic,\u00a0\u00a0discouraged and without goals.\u00a0 Do they come by this attitude and way of looking at life automatically or is it created, at least partially,\u00a0by their surroundings and the people they&#8217;re in contact with daily, such as family?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can we do<\/strong> for ourselves and our children so we\/they have &#8220;magical&#8221; days.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make up our minds that we&#8217;ll greet the morning with a smile.<\/li>\n<li>Determine to be pleasant to those around us, whether they are upbeat or not.<\/li>\n<li>Exercise and try to maintain good health.<\/li>\n<li>Get adequate sleep.\u00a0 (My challenges always loom larger when I&#8217;m tired.)<\/li>\n<li>Keep a &#8220;thankful&#8221; journal and find at least one small item to write in it.\u00a0 Teach your children to do the same.\u00a0 Share this, as a family,\u00a0at the end of the day.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Look for the magic and encourage your children to do the same.<\/strong>\u00a0 Then share the magic with others and be a light in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_139891\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139891\" src=\"http:\/\/images3.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/1252918_the_first_steps_12.jpg\" alt=\"Magcal moments image: sxc.hu\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magcal moments image: sxc.hu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/teach-children-to-have-magical-days\/\">Teach Children to Have &#8220;Magical&#8221; Days<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Dallas Franklin, commented recently that her motto for 2010 is, &#8220;I expect magic and miracles in my life.&#8221;Why not be determined to have &#8220;magical&#8221; days yourself and teach your children to have this attitude.\u00a0 So many youngsters I encounter in my work as a substitute teacher seem\u00a0 unenthusiastic,\u00a0\u00a0discouraged and without goals.\u00a0 Do they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}