{"id":785432,"date":"2012-02-07T03:09:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T03:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=785432"},"modified":"2012-02-07T03:09:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T03:09:54","slug":"exercise-in-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2012\/02\/07\/exercise-in-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise in Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately, our house has fallen prey to a little ‘attitude’. \u00a0I decided to give us a little project that would help us become aware of our behavior. \u00a0This activity come from the ‘Plants Grown Up’<\/a>\u00a0book:<\/p>\n

We talked about how, when faced with issues or temptations that can lead us to respond in a manner that is less than appealing or appropriate, we can choose to either control or not control our spirit.<\/p>\n

I made three charts that said, ‘Control My Spirit’, and ‘Not Control My Spirit’. \u00a0When we were faced with a situation and took control in how we responded, we placed a piece of pasta in the ‘Control My Spirit’ jar. \u00a0If we responded in anger, sarcasm, etc., we placed a piece of pasta in ‘Not Control My Spirit’. \u00a0We did this for a few days. \u00a0Here are the results of the first day:<\/p>\n

Mom: Rule: 2 No Rule: 4
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R: Rule: 5 Not Rule: 1
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A: Rule:10 Not Rule: 1
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It was a good exercise in thinking before responding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately, our house has fallen prey to a little ‘attitude’. \u00a0I decided to give us a little project that would help us become aware of our behavior. \u00a0This activity come from the ‘Plants Grown Up’\u00a0book: We talked about how, when faced with issues or temptations that can lead us to respond in a manner that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785436,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785432\/revisions\/785436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}