{"id":4020,"date":"2023-12-04T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2023-11-11T08:31:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T13:31:52","slug":"childhood-instructions-carried-into-adulthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/12\/childhood-instructions-carried-into-adulthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Instructions Carried Into Adulthood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Most of us received many instructions in childhood. Now that we are in adulthood, are we still tying ourselves to instructions meant for children?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is something I was told as a child (and I have told many children): Look both ways before crossing the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I still recommend this instruction for adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How about this one: don&#8217;t talk to strangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t recommend this one for adults. In the course of a job, I need to talk to many people I don&#8217;t know, i.e., strangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I am doing something as an adult and having lots of difficulty from that, am I being childish? Am I following a rule told to me in childhood that I should discard as an adult? I can do many things after eating without waiting an hour. I don&#8217;t need a nap everyday (well, at this point I want a nap everyday, but some people frown on sleeping at work at my desk). I can see what I need to see, hear what I need to hear, and then decide if it is for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list of childhood rules that I can discard as an adult is long. Let&#8217;s be aware of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Most of us received many instructions in childhood. Now that we are in adulthood, are we still tying ourselves to instructions meant for children? Here is something I was told as a child (and I have told many children): Look both ways before crossing the street. I still recommend this instruction for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,21,265,269,288,433],"tags":[120,143,266,270,290,436],"class_list":["post-4020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-change","category-childhood","category-decide","category-nap","category-self","tag-adults","tag-change","tag-childhood","tag-decide","tag-nap","tag-self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}