{"id":264,"date":"2012-02-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/873860c9-c5fb-4bd3-b944-871f21c06e45"},"modified":"2012-02-19T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T05:00:00","slug":"achieving-your-goals-the-art-of-teaching-each-other-to-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Achieving Your Goals, the Art of Teaching Each Other to Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12px\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><font style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt; \"><font face=\"Calibri\">Years ago, the baby crawled to the end-table, reached up, and hoisted herself onto chubby, wobbly legs.&nbsp; She let go and then fell.&nbsp; She reached up and grabbed the edge of the end-table again and lifted herself up.&nbsp; She let go.&nbsp; She fell. &nbsp;&nbsp;Again and again she repeated this action until finally, over the course of many days, was able to balance herself on her own feet.&nbsp; She chortled a crystalline laugh.&nbsp; Her father sat in the chair across the room.&nbsp; He held out his arms.&nbsp; A coffee table and a foot stool stood in the path.&nbsp; She looked down at her feet, thought at them to lift.&nbsp; Finally one of her feet got the message and lifted, taking an awkward little step. And then she fell.&nbsp; After a few exasperating moments flat on her face, she looked up at her father.&nbsp; \u201cYou can do it,\u201d he said, \u201cone step at a time.\u201d She rose again and steadied herself.&nbsp; She raised her arms to ear level, and then teetered into a head-long step. And then fell again.&nbsp; Over and over she fell and over and over got up.&nbsp; Once he held out his hand and she grabbed ahold of one of his fingers and let herself be led across the room.&nbsp; She was delighted.&nbsp; She looked down at her moving feet.&nbsp; She couldn\u2019t believe what they were doing. Then he let go and she kept walking.&nbsp; She looked up at him, amazed.&nbsp; He held out his arms.&nbsp; She tumbled into them laughing the laughter of heaven.&nbsp; The image swirled through him.&nbsp; That was thirty years ago. The sound of her laughter rang in his ears and formed the words: \u201cYou can do it daddy.\u201d&nbsp; He blinked back to the present moment where she held out her arms.&nbsp; He slowly and tentatively rose from his wheel-chair, doctors and nurses looking on, and took the first steps he had taken since the car accident three years before.&nbsp; He wobbled, teetered, and he grabbed her arms to steady himself.&nbsp; \u201cHow am I going to do this?\u201d he asked.&nbsp; \u201cOne step at a time,\u201d she said, tears forming in her eyes.&nbsp; Then she let him go.&nbsp; He took a little step, and then another.&nbsp; He inched closer to her, until finally, he tumbled into her arms, laughing the laughter of heaven.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\" align=\"center\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"WIDTH: 322px; HEIGHT: 157px\" id=\"rg_hi\" class=\"rg_hi\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgIw0aT75tMjB1729oDPBI7ZgfFNuHxwpWC69CYgnZ2i_GLzh6ug\" width=\"322\" height=\"157\" data-height=\"157\" data-width=\"322\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Copyright Joseph Anthony of the Wonder Child Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, the baby crawled to the end-table, reached up, and hoisted herself onto chubby, wobbly legs.&nbsp; She let go and then fell.&nbsp; She reached up and grabbed the edge of the end-table again and lifted herself up.&nbsp; She let go.&nbsp; She fell. &nbsp;&nbsp;Again and again she repeated this action until finally, over the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}