{"id":27,"date":"2020-06-05T09:53:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/?p=27"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:53:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:53:35","slug":"finding-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/2020\/06\/05\/finding-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change brings stress. \u00a0Even change that is considered positive can bring with it stress. \u00a0As we have all experienced over the last several weeks change has been daily and in some cases it has been hourly. \u00a0This week, in the school system, we experienced another significant change with the opening of schools. \u00a0In my last blog post I talked about how you are the parent and here again that theme rings out. \u00a0Many of you have made a decision to send your children or keep them home without any difficulty. \u00a0Yet for others, you have really struggled trying to make the &#8220;right&#8221; decision for your family. \u00a0From my perspective there is no blanket &#8220;right&#8221; answer &#8211; and with that, there is no blanket &#8220;wrong&#8221; answer.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several weeks we have gotten to know British Columbia&#8217;s top doctor &#8211; Dr. Bonnie Henry. \u00a0Many have asked me what I think about her. \u00a0My answer usually involves something like the following, &#8220;I really like her and I think she is very good at her job. \u00a0Even if she isn&#8217;t good at her job the sense of &#8220;calm&#8221; that she brings when she speaks is so valuable.&#8221; \u00a0 I realize there are many that want to debate the process of what has gone on and that is not my intention. \u00a0My goal here is to focus on our need for calm. \u00a0It is so important to create calm in your lives and the lives of your children. \u00a0I will caution you that what is calm for your family may look completely different than another family.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;whatever your decision has been for your children regarding schools opening up&#8230;I wish you confidence and peace in your decision. \u00a0If you want or need to chat&#8230;remember I am here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change brings stress. \u00a0Even change that is considered positive can bring with it stress. \u00a0As we have all experienced over the last several weeks change has been daily and in some cases it has been hourly. \u00a0This week, in the school system, we experienced another significant change with the opening of schools. \u00a0In my last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mcallisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}