Dear Lord; This morning Father, I\u2019m just going to brag a little about my children.\u00a0 I attended a parent-teacher conference for Aidan this morning, and it was just so heartening to hear the wonderful words of praise from his teacher.\u00a0 He\u2019s doing very well academically, but that wasn\u2019t really what made me leave grinning from ear to ear.\u00a0 His teacher started the meeting by saying that for conferences this period, she sat down and came up with three adjectives to describe each child.\u00a0 In Aidan\u2019s case, she had a hard time choosing only three but the ones she came up with as the top selections just made my day; Curious, Sweet and Helpful.\u00a0 She then spent time emphasizing to me that while he was a wonderful student, he was just a pleasure to have in her class because he was so focused on caring for and helping everyone around him.\u00a0 (~Insert Beaming Father Face Here~)\u00a0 Shannon and I try very hard to instill a sense of empathy and sense of compassion in our boys, but like every parent we have days where we\u2019re just sure we\u2019re missing the mark somewhere.\u00a0 Today was a wonderful validation that through all of it, we\u2019re doing something right.\u00a0 Thank You so much for Blessing us with our two Angels, and for helping me see that glimpse of the Men we\u2019re trying to raise.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Lord; This morning Father, I\u2019m just going to brag a little about my children.\u00a0 I attended a parent-teacher conference for Aidan this morning, and it was just so heartening to hear the wonderful words of praise from his teacher.\u00a0 He\u2019s doing very well academically, but that wasn\u2019t really what made me leave grinning from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[181,185,12,182,132,37,176,179,183,39,4,173,180,177,186,174,178,175,184],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-aidan","tag-angels","tag-blessings","tag-boys","tag-children","tag-compassion","tag-conference","tag-curious","tag-education","tag-empathy","tag-family","tag-father","tag-helpful","tag-meeting","tag-pride","tag-school","tag-sweet","tag-teacher","tag-validation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-5I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}