{"id":533,"date":"2021-01-21T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T18:26:12","slug":"positive-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Positive Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to share happiness with a child is to be happy yourself and have moments of positive connections.&nbsp; When teaching children it is easy to get caught up in the busy moments of teaching.&nbsp; It is the unselfish spirit of thinking of positive things of others that is powerful.&nbsp; When teaching a class, try to notice and say something positive to each child at least once during the period.&nbsp; This is such a helpful tool of happiness, even down to the one or two-year-olds.&nbsp; Simple statements like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;You look so lovely today with that pink dress.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I like your smile.&nbsp; It brightened up my room.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A child shows you his owey, sympathize and say something like, &#8220;you are such a brave boy, I&#8217;m glad God makes our hurts go away.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m so glad you&#8217;re here today.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to keep gushing over a person, just make a simple statement with a smile and sincerity.&nbsp; Believe it or not, you will find that this attitude of looking for the good in children will help your attitude too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to share happiness with a child is to be happy yourself and have moments of positive connections.&nbsp; When teaching children it is easy to get caught up in the busy moments of teaching.&nbsp; It is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/?p=533\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Positive Connection<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26,24,3,25,27],"tags":[38,35,39,33,36,34,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidshealthandhappiness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}