{"id":18991,"date":"2016-08-18T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=18991"},"modified":"2016-08-18T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:08:00","slug":"bearsofbaylor-put-yourself-in-the-position-of-your-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2016\/08\/bearsofbaylor-put-yourself-in-the-position-of-your-child\/","title":{"rendered":"#BearsOfBaylor &#8212; &#8220;Put yourself in the position of your child&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[What advice would you have for other parents?]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dad: &#8220;Put yourself in the position of your child: the excitement, the fun, the thrill. We love our kids, obviously, so put your kid above you, above your feelings. That\u2019s the hardest part, because my selfishness really wants him at home. But the thrill of all this, this is what I raised him for 18 years for! He\u2019s in a great Christian school. Couldn\u2019t ask for anything better than what Baylor will give him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mom: &#8220;And it makes it better when they\u2019re excited. My daughter, she just loved Baylor. \u2026 It\u2019s a good school. It\u2019s worth the drive [from Arkansas].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18992\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BOB-parentsmovein-aug16.jpg\" alt=\"#BearsOfBaylor\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BOB-parentsmovein-aug16.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BOB-parentsmovein-aug16-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BOB-parentsmovein-aug16-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BOB-parentsmovein-aug16-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Every Baylor Bear has a story; #BearsOfBaylor brings those stories to you, one by one. These stories, these people&#8230; This is our Baylor.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[What advice would you have for other parents?] Dad: &#8220;Put yourself in the position of your child: the excitement, the fun, the thrill. We love our kids, obviously, so put your kid above you, above your feelings. That\u2019s the hardest part, because my selfishness really wants him at home. But the thrill of all this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bearsofbaylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}