{"id":9515,"date":"2010-06-04T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T05:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=9515"},"modified":"2010-06-04T13:18:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T05:18:05","slug":"parental-responsibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/04\/parental-responsibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental Responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/PrimeNews\/Story\/STIStory_535185.html\">an article in news pages<\/a> of The Straits Times today about a secondary school student having an accident while climbing Mt. Kinabalu &#8211; yep, that mountain that Ling has scaled 2-3 times now. The 13 year old boy fell and injured his head, but is in stable condition now.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what I found especially interesting, and also heartening, was this part of the news article, which quoted the boy&#8217;s father:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mr Chan, who has two other sons, said he will not discourage his son from other school trips after this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8216;It was purely an accident. These things happen, so I won&#8217;t deter him from other trips, but he has to show me he can take care of himself before I let him go on another one.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly the kind of parents I think we should aspire to be. No knee-jerk reactions, blaming the establishment and hunting around for someone to blame and absolving your precious tots of any responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in news pages of The Straits Times today about a secondary school student having an accident while climbing Mt. Kinabalu &#8211; yep, that mountain that Ling has scaled 2-3 times now. The 13 year old boy<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/04\/parental-responsibilities\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Parental Responsibilities<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters","wpcat-12-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}