{"id":779,"date":"2014-12-28T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T16:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/?page_id=779"},"modified":"2015-07-08T20:30:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T02:30:30","slug":"what-will-you-trade-your-time-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/what-will-you-trade-your-time-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Will You Trade Your Time For?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"coins\"<\/a>We all get a finite amount of time to live on this earth; our days are numbered. Imagine that the time given to you is a bag of gold coins. Just what will you trade your coins for? It will run out no matter how you spend it. When you’ve spent the last coin, just what will you have?<\/p>\n

I recently read the statistics on the effect a working mom has on her family. They were sobering: a professional woman is more likely to get divorced, more likely to be disloyal to her husband, less likely to have children, and, if she does have kids, she are more likely to be unhappy about it. A study in Social Forces<\/em> (Aug. 23, 2006), a research journal, found that even women with a “feminist” outlook are happier when their husband is the primary breadwinner.<\/p>\n

Be cautious before you trade those gold coins of time to earn money. You have so much more influence and power right at home, in training and educating your own children! It is easier to buy children things, or to provide entertainment and classes for them, that it is to give them our time. Yet nothing is so valuable to them as our time!<\/p>\n

\"lovetosave2\"<\/a>

Louisa<\/p><\/div>\n

Recently, after a morning of homeschooling and then the excitement of shopping for new clothes, my young daughter Louisa sat on the couch looking at her new clothes and feeling contemplative. Suddenly, she pronounced, “It is better than all the clothes I have, and cotton candy, to have you alone to myself!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am not sure how cotton candy fits in (as she has only had it once at a fair) but I guess it ranks high on her list of “desirables”! But I was blinking back tears as I remembered that nothing is as delicious to a child as a loving parent’s attention.<\/p>\n

I love old stories! Read this tender, yearning glimpse of what a working mom feels like from a child’s perspective: “Mama’s Boy”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enjoy your time with your children!
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

May I recommend:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

\"Louisascooter\"
\nFirst, A Relationship
\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\"homeschoolpoemmom\"
\nCome Play with Me
\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\"13975\"
\nPink Blush Porcelain Tea Set
\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all get a finite amount of time to live on this earth; our days are numbered. Imagine that the time given to you is a bag of gold coins. Just what will you trade your coins for? It will run out no matter how you spend it. When you’ve spent the last coin, just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6447,"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":[23,10],"tags":[278,279,280],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nurturing","category-why-homeschool","tag-mothering","tag-nurturing","tag-what-kids-want","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/coins.jpg?fit=150%2C124&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6IrRN-cz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":661,"url":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/using-muscles-for-memory\/","url_meta":{"origin":779,"position":0},"title":"Using Muscles for Memory","author":"Diane Hopkins","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"Wiggles! Kids seem to be full of them and they can make sitting still, learning, focusing, and concentrating extra hard! If you can't fight 'em, join 'em. Time to use those big muscles to help kids learn! I have a chin-up bar hanging over a doorway near where we do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "How to Homeschool"","block_context":{"text":"How to Homeschool","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/category\/how-to-homeschool\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/were_gonna_get_you_daddy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1765,"url":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/family-opposition\/","url_meta":{"origin":779,"position":1},"title":"I Want to Homeschool","author":"Diane Hopkins","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I really have a passion for wanting to homeschool our 4 children, however my husband and other family members think it would be better for the children and I would be better off sending them to school. Am I showing respect to my husband by dropping the subject and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Concerns"","block_context":{"text":"Concerns","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/category\/how-to-homeschool\/homeschooling-concerns\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/69.195.124.81\/~homescp3\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Photoxpress_4958427-1024x682.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":825,"url":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/soak-in-the-joy\/","url_meta":{"origin":779,"position":2},"title":"Soak in the Joy!","author":"Diane Hopkins","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"We just went to Arches National Park for a quick sight-seeing trip. At the last minute, some of our grown kids jumped in too, so our 7 passenger van was full to the brim and scraped bottom if we went over a big bump. What fun we had, singing as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Parenting"","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/category\/why-homeschool\/homeschooling-parenting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"archeskids","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/archeskids-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1182,"url":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/zoned-out-kids\/","url_meta":{"origin":779,"position":3},"title":"Zoned Out Kids","author":"Diane Hopkins","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I am at wit's end with my daughter. I tell her, remind her, nag her, coax her and still she will not do what I ask. I don't want to punish her all the time. She seems to turn a deaf ear to me. It is very hard to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Parenting"","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/category\/why-homeschool\/homeschooling-parenting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_2708_2.jpg?fit=639%2C465&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_2708_2.jpg?fit=639%2C465&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_2708_2.jpg?fit=639%2C465&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":821,"url":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/happy-girl\/","url_meta":{"origin":779,"position":4},"title":"Happy Girl","author":"Diane Hopkins","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"What does it take to make a happy girl? Here's the recipe: * Knowing she is a daughter of God * Chances to work hard and serve others * One-on-one time with Mom * Challenging enough academic studies * Time to read uplifting classic books * A hobby to keep\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Nurturing"","block_context":{"text":"Nurturing","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/category\/why-homeschool\/nurturing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"louisahike","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/louisahike.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":815,"url":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/its-up-to-us-mom\/","url_meta":{"origin":779,"position":5},"title":"It’s Up to Us, Mom!","author":"Diane Hopkins","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"I wish I could say that we have arrived at the modern age and now we can breathe easier and relax a bit and turn over the instruction and entertainment of our children to some electronic device or nanny or government program or Sunday school class or something. But the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Parenting"","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/category\/why-homeschool\/homeschooling-parenting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"emily_blanket","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/emily_blanket-201x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6659,"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/6659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}