{"id":613,"date":"2009-09-02T22:36:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papabachwani.wordpress.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-09-02T22:36:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:06:30","slug":"is-it-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2009\/09\/is-it-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A forwarded email came with a presentation on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.TommysWindow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Price of Children<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 The purpose of that communication was to show how, even though bringing up children costs a significant sum, the benefits far outweigh the costs involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, it also served as a great reminder of the joy that only children can bring to our lives.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a brief extract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a parent, you get &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naming rights : First, middle and last!<\/li>\n<li>Glimpses of God every day, and giggles under the cover, each night<\/li>\n<li>More love than your heart can hold<\/li>\n<li>Endless wonder&#8230; over rocks, ants, clouds and cookies<\/li>\n<li>A partner for blowing bubbles&#8230; and flying kites<\/li>\n<li>Someone to laugh with&#8230; no matter what the boss said, or how the stocks performed<\/li>\n<li>To finger-paint, play hide-n-seek, catch fireflies<\/li>\n<li>Keep reading&#8230; and reading&#8230; the Adventures of piglet and Pooh<\/li>\n<li>Go to Disney movies&#8230; and wish on stars<\/li>\n<li>Handmade greeting cards with backward letters!<\/li>\n<li>To be a hero just for removing a splinter, or filling a wading pool<\/li>\n<li>A front row seat to witness the first step, word, bra, date, drive!<\/li>\n<li>Another branch added to your family tree&#8230; immortality!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God&#8230; You have all the power\u00a0to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart,\u00a0police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits &#8211; so one\u00a0day they will, like you, love without counting the cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it all worth it, just for <em>one<\/em> of these benefits ?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A forwarded email came with a presentation on the &#8220;Price of Children&#8220;.\u00a0 The purpose of that communication was to show how, even though bringing up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenthood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}