{"id":127,"date":"2014-09-01T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2014\/09\/01\/insights-from-staying-inside-why-i-play-lego-with-my-daughter\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T06:07:19","slug":"insights-from-staying-inside-why-i-play-lego-with-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2014\/09\/insights-from-staying-inside-why-i-play-lego-with-my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post at Yahoo Parenting: Why I play Lego with my Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were honoured to be invited by <a href=\"https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/insights-from-staying-inside-040010875.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Parenting<\/a> to contribute an article last month.\u00a0 Let me reproduce the piece which Dana&#8217;s Daddy wrote on the benefits of staying indoors sometimes and a few important lessons he glean from a Sunday afternoon spent playing (Lego) with his daughter&#8230;<\/p>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-01-at-11.09.38-pm.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-01-at-11.12.27-pm.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-01-at-11.19.23-pm.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-01-at-11.22.51-pm.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">First published on <a href=\"https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/insights-from-staying-inside-040010875.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Parenting<\/a> on 18 Aug 2014. Read the original article <a href=\"https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/insights-from-staying-inside-040010875.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always enjoyed reading the hubby&#8217;s writing.\u00a0 I leave you with my favourite quote from this piece as food for thought,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i><span style=\"color: blue;\">We are taught to focus on our work and give our best. Perhaps we also need to learn to focus on our families because they deserve our best.<\/span>..&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 David Sim<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/signature-mom13.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were honoured to be invited by Yahoo Parenting to contribute an article last month.\u00a0 Let me reproduce the piece which Dana&#8217;s Daddy wrote on the benefits of staying indoors sometimes and a few important lessons he glean from a Sunday afternoon spent playing (Lego) with his daughter&#8230; First published on Yahoo Parenting on 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,3,92,62,17,282,91],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59hHF-23","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8225,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}