{"id":9157,"date":"2015-05-15T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9157"},"modified":"2016-09-07T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:44:01","slug":"teaching-our-children-the-art-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9157","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Our Children the Art of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0011\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7597\/17248537652_e61d2af7d3_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0011\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7597\/17248537652_e61d2af7d3_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0011\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>We all want our children to be happy<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I recently read an inspiring book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Teaching-Happiness-Innovation-Mike-Ferry-ebook\/dp\/B00MNQGXGE\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1430421396&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=teaching+happiness+and+innovation\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching Happiness and Innovation, by Mike Ferry<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>that focuses on ways we can teach our children to be more grateful, inspire creativity, and in turn, be happier. It&#8217;s a quick read and totally worth your while. I love the idea that we can practice happiness as a skill and improve upon it through practice just like any other skill. It&#8217;s definitely gotten the wheels turning in how I parent our boys.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/parenting\/wp\/2015\/05\/08\/how-to-teach-our-children-the-art-of-happiness\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all want our children to be happy\u2026 I recently read an inspiring book,\u00a0Teaching Happiness and Innovation, by Mike Ferry,\u00a0that focuses on ways we can teach our children to be more grateful, inspire creativity, and in turn, be happier. It&#8217;s a quick read and totally worth your while. I love the idea that we can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teaching Our Children the Art of Happiness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[75,48,132],"class_list":["post-9157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motherhood","tag-ingenius-ideas","tag-motherhood","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9157"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9216,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions\/9216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}