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Growing Up…<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m one of those parents who believes that children should grow up and be whoever they want to be, irrespective of how their parents feel about what they are capable of.\u00a0\u00a0 I also find it fascinating to observe how a child’s mind develops with age and how his\/her aspirations change with time.\u00a0 That is why, every few months or so, I casually ask Pumpkin if she has decided\u00a0what she’d like to be when she grows up.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the past, her answers have included painter, artist and a ballerina.\u00a0 But, this time, I was taken by surprise!<\/p>\n Papa: Pumpkin, what would you like to be when you grow up?<\/p>\n Pumpkin: I want to be a “birthday person” !<\/p>\n Papa: What’s a “birthday person” ?!<\/p>\n Pumpkin: It’s someone who has a birthday every day, and gets lots of presents and balloons and candy floss… every day<\/em>!<\/p>\n Pumpkin: Can you imagine that?!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In 2 days, Pumpkin will be 6 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Growing Up… I’m one of those parents who believes that children should grow up and be whoever they want to be, irrespective of how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wonder-years"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}