{"id":590,"date":"2019-08-07T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2022-02-06T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:13:54","slug":"appreciating-the-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/appreciating-the-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Appreciating the Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cWhen a child gives you a gift,
even if it is a rock they just picked up,
exude gratitude.<\/em>
It may be the only thing they have to give,
and they have chosen\u00a0to give\u00a0it to\u00a0you\u201d
by Dean Jackson<\/p>\n\n

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This is my rock. It’s home is a shelf in my office. I have been asked about it many times, so here is the significance it holds to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A child brought it to me a few years ago. It was a Monday morning and she eagerly shoved it into my hands and said something like \u00ab\u00a0look what I found for you!\u00a0\u00bb Her mom told me she had carefully chosen it from a pile of rocks and carried it around with her over the weekend, waiting to give it to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Imagine that! She had picked it out just for me. She had carried it around, just for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It meant so much to her that I had that rock and because of that, it meant so much to me.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

So it stays on my shelf as a reminder that something as simple as a rock is a child’s way of showing their love.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Or a shell (or three.)<\/p>\n

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The next time a child brings you a gift, don’t just sigh and say \u00ab\u00a0it is just a rock,\u00a0\u00bb cherish it. As Dean Jackson said – it is all they have to give and they are giving it to you!\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen a child gives you a gift, even if it is a rock they just picked up, exude gratitude. It may be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen\u00a0to give\u00a0it to\u00a0you\u201dby Dean Jackson This is my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Appreciating the Gifts - Garderie Sunnyside Daycare","description":"\u201cWhen a child gives you a gift, even if it is a rock they just picked up, exude gratitude. It may be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen\u00a0to g"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebration-2","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garderiesunnyside.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}