{"id":70376,"date":"2025-01-13T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T09:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70376"},"modified":"2025-01-13T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T09:43:28","slug":"being-a-parent-means-youre-never-quite-your-own-person-again-but-that-self-sacrifice-can-pull-off-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/13\/being-a-parent-means-youre-never-quite-your-own-person-again-but-that-self-sacrifice-can-pull-off-a-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a parent means you\u2019re never quite your own person again \u2013 but that self-sacrifice can pull off a miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BB1rll6w.img?w=768&amp;h=461&amp;m=6\" alt=\"\u2018If the self-sacrifice of parents in general and mothers in particular goes unrewarded, I find it strangely consoling that God gets how that feels.\u2019 Composite: Nenov\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I believe power trips and parenting should never mix, so I freaked out when the early childhood nurse told me that to my baby boy, I was a \u201cgoddess\u201d.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/lifestylegeneral\/being-a-parent-means-you-re-never-quite-your-own-person-again-but-that-self-sacrifice-can-pull-off-a-miracle\/ar-BB1rlnjh?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=5e46b2bc5a964cc08337f95ca8e2e24d&amp;ei=39\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I believe power trips and parenting should never mix, so I freaked out when the early childhood nurse told me that to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/baby-feet-black-and-white.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70377,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70376\/revisions\/70377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}