{"id":8519,"date":"2024-01-24T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8519"},"modified":"2024-01-24T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:58:08","slug":"the-power-of-parents-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8519","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Parents\u2019 Examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-power-of-parents-examples\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-power-of-parents-examples\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christian headlines recently reported on a Kentucky teen working at a Kroger store who used his own money to pay for a man\u2019s groceries when the teen realized the man couldn\u2019t pay for all the groceries he\u2019d selected. This young man explained his generosity to this stranger saying, \u201cJust do something helpful for people. Let them know that God\u2019s there for them and make sure they have a good day.\u201d The report said the teen\u2019s mom was proud of him and that she realized he\u2019d been listening to what she had been trying to instill in him as he grew up.<\/p>\n<p>This incident happened because a parent intentionally built into a son principles for living selflessly. I certainly can\u2019t prove it, but I suspect this teen boy has seen his mom do similar things for others, and I\u2019m guessing her example was even more powerful than her words. Oh the power of parents who teach their children by word and deed.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-power-of-parents-examples\/ Christian headlines recently reported on a Kentucky teen working&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8520,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions\/8520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}