{"id":39,"date":"2012-01-16T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/2012\/01\/16\/Hugs-Out-of-the-Blue.aspx"},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:11:10","slug":"hugs-out-of-the-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/hugs-out-of-the-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugs Out of the Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever just go up to your kids and give them a hug?&nbsp; I&#8217;m talking about a hug that is totally unexpected and unrelated to their behavior or an event.&nbsp; A hug that says I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re in my life and I love you!&nbsp;&nbsp;It makes everyone feel&nbsp;good and lets your kids know how special they are to you.&nbsp; It shows them the total unconditional love you&nbsp;have for them just being who they are!<\/p>\n<p>I try to remember to do this from time to time- a hug just out of the blue.&nbsp; I always get a huge smile from the person I am hugging.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re not sure if you are doing enough hugging, here is a quick easy test.&nbsp; After you give a hug if the recipient asks, &#8220;What was that for?&#8221; then you need to do it more often!<\/p>\n<p>For advanced hugging, don&#8217;t be the first to let go.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll be surprised at just how long your kids can hug you.&nbsp; Try it, just give a hug and don&#8217;t let go right away.&nbsp; Enjoy it.&nbsp; Allow them to let go first when they are ready.&nbsp;&nbsp;You might be surprised that they hold on for longer than you expected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to share your hugs with all your&nbsp;loved ones!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever just go up to your kids and give them a hug?&nbsp; I&#8217;m talking about a hug that is totally unexpected and unrelated to their behavior or an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/hugs-out-of-the-blue\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7urq8-D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}