{"id":8410,"date":"2011-10-30T00:51:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T04:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2011-10-30T00:51:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T04:51:18","slug":"dads-five-ways-to-make-your-words-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2011\/10\/30\/dads-five-ways-to-make-your-words-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Dads, Five Ways to Make Your Words Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Parnell | Oct 27, 2011 05:00 pm<\/p>\n<p>God, Manhood and Ministry &#8211; Building men for the body of Christ<\/p>\n<p>We reflect on five lessons we learned from our father on how to speak so that your children take your words seriously:<\/p>\n<p>        Don&#8217;t waste words. Don&#8217;t add a lot of apologies or unnecessary detail that make you look timid.<br \/>\n        Don&#8217;t threaten.<br \/>\n        Be clear about expectations. When you tell someone, especially a child, how to behave or what to do, make sure you both are very clear about what you expect.<br \/>\n        Be clear about consequences, particularly if your expectations involve an area with which that child has struggled in the past.<br \/>\n        Take clear, decisive action. . . .<\/p>\n<p>    Say what you mean and back up your words with action. It&#8217;s a testimony to your integrity and an example your children will carry with them throughout their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Parnell | Oct 27, 2011 05:00 pm God, Manhood and Ministry &#8211; Building men for the body of Christ We reflect on five lessons we learned from our father on how to speak so that your children take your words seriously: Don&#8217;t waste words. Don&#8217;t add a lot of apologies or unnecessary detail&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}