Don\u2019t waste the time you have while your children are young\u2026 your career, money, success, achievements, possessions are *nothing* in comparison.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“You need to understand this about your kids – it is worth knowing: your kids want to have the very best relationship with you that they possibly could have. They are 100% on board with that idea. Way more than *anyone* you have every met in your life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That means you can have the best relationship with your children that you have ever had with anyone – that is what they offer you – \u00a0it is up to you to release that. That is a good opportunity even if you have been beat up a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you are bitter\u2026you will hurt them – you don\u2019t want to do that. \u201c\u00a0
– Peter Jordensen:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Don\u2019t waste the time you have while your children are young\u2026 your career, money, success, achievements, possessions are *nothing* in comparison.\u00a0 “You need to understand this about your kids – it is worth knowing: your kids want to have the very best relationship with you that they possibly could have. They are 100% on board with that idea. Way more than *anyone* you have every met in your life.\u00a0 That means you can have the best relationship with your children that you have ever had with anyone – that is what they offer you – \u00a0it is up to you …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting","tag-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/screenshot_1301.jpg?fit=1406%2C1344&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasDCW-CI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}