{"id":69420,"date":"2024-02-29T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T09:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=69420"},"modified":"2024-02-29T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T09:20:36","slug":"i-just-wanted-to-say-thank-you-to-the-kind-dad-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/i-just-wanted-to-say-thank-you-to-the-kind-dad-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Wanted To Say Thank You To The Kind Dad Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>I just wanted to say thank you to the kind dad yesterday who made the time to stop and chat to my autistic 3 year old who was having a hard time due to the sensory overload.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>To most he probably just seemed like a naughty child and it\u2019s extremely hard and somewhat embarrassing always getting \u2018the look\u2019 from everyone passing by like you\u2019re not doing a good job while your child is screaming and running amok or that you\u2019re just \u2019letting\u2019 them behave in an inappropriate manner.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Having mentioned he also had a 3 year old, this man spoke to my son so calmly and kindly and asked him questions about dinosaurs which deferred his attention and he eventually was able to get to a better emotional state.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Please be kind to parents (and children)\u2026 sometimes all is not what it seems.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to say thank you to the kind dad yesterday who made the time to stop and chat to my autistic 3 year old who was having a hard time due to the sensory overload. To most he probably just seemed like a naughty child and it\u2019s extremely hard and somewhat embarrassing always\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":69422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"I just wanted to say thank you to the kind dad yesterday who made the time to stop and chat to my autistic 3 year old who was having...","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moral-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/I-Just-Wanted-To-Say-Thank-You-To-The-Kind-Dad-Yesterday.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></p></span></p></span></p></span></p>