{"id":959,"date":"2005-01-03T08:55:57","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/03\/parents_take_no\/"},"modified":"2005-01-03T08:55:57","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T13:55:57","slug":"parents_take_no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/03\/parents_take_no\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Take Note\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026You are doing <a href=\"http:\/\/home.hamptonroads.com\/stories\/story.cfm?story=79996&#038;ran=23538\">something right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though the numbers of teenagers engaging in risky behavior remains alarmingly high, public health officials are increasingly cheered by the trend. <\/p>\n<p>They cite a variety of reasons for it, including slick commercials that educate teens on the consequences of drugs and cigarettes and sex. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the possibility that today&#8217;s hyper-busy children &#8211; raised by peripatetic parents &#8211; have no time to waste. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most hopeful reason is one embedded in the generation gap between today&#8217;s teens and today&#8217;s parents, those party-children of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. <\/p>\n<p>When they were young, today&#8217;s parents engaged in precisely the same kinds of risky behavior available to their children, to the dismay of their own parents, and despite plenty of unheeded calls to reform. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps because of their own hard, dangerous lessons, and because of their exposure to all the messages that didn&#8217;t work, today&#8217;s parents have an easier time doing something their folks found difficult: getting their children to listen. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026You are doing something right. Though the numbers of teenagers engaging in risky behavior remains alarmingly high, public health officials are increasingly cheered by the trend. They cite a variety of reasons for it, including slick commercials that educate teens on the consequences of drugs and cigarettes and sex. There&#8217;s also the possibility that today&#8217;s&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/03\/parents_take_no\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}