{"id":214,"date":"2012-11-27T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T23:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2015-04-22T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T22:23:20","slug":"hear-mama-bear-roar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Hear mama bear roar!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fact: \u00a0I’m divorced
\nFact: \u00a0I’m a single mother
\nFact: \u00a0I am no less valuable as a human being because of the two previous statements.<\/p>\n

……and neither is my son. \u00a0Now how to teach a five year old that he isn’t defined by the actions of his parents is a whole new awareness I have.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is that you are treated differently. You are labeled. Especially in the mormon culture of my pedigree. \u00a0It’s like I’m wearing a big scarlet letter on my chest (no this isn’t some admittance of guilt) or a yellow star as an identifying mark. \u00a0Fortunately I am stubborn. I won’t be defined by this label. \u00a0It was a decision I made to better my life and and the life of my future child. I was right. \u00a0However, with every decision it’s inevitable that the judgement comes.<\/p>\n

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Recently my son was labeled as the kid whose parents were divorced. He knew that it was meant to make him feel bad but wasn’t quite sure why it should. The hardest part was that it came from a family member. \u00a0The people who are supposed to love us unconditionally – without judgement.<\/p>\n

This is where mama bear roars. \u00a0Not at the little boy who desired to lessen the confidence of my son, but rather at life…at people…and at labels. \u00a0He is innocent, perfect and shouldn’t be defined as such. \u00a0Can I teach him his worth? \u00a0Can he shrug off this label as easily as I can? \u00a0Can he emotionally understand that the labels of others \u00a0have more to do with their own insecurities than that of reality?<\/p>\n

A battle is brewing. \u00a0To win this\u00a0ridiculous\u00a0war and shed light on the issue. I will fight to the death to protect the worth of my child. Not just mine, but others as well. \u00a0Nothing will limit his knowledge of his own personal worth.<\/p>\n

It all starts at home.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fact: \u00a0I’m divorced Fact: \u00a0I’m a single mother Fact: \u00a0I am no less valuable as a human being because of the two previous statements. ……and neither is my son. \u00a0Now how to teach a five year old that he isn’t defined by the actions of his parents is a whole new awareness I have. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heaven-help-me","category-motherly-love","category-womanhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}