{"id":2475,"date":"2020-10-12T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2023-02-17T01:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T05:25:41","slug":"the-lessons-i-leave-for-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/the-lessons-i-leave-for-my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lessons I Leave for My Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yesterday was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/girlchild\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Day of the Girl Child<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and this is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the girls we are raising and refocus our efforts to helping them create the lives they want.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find Role Models Who Inspire You<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every day, I aim to live a life and make decisions that my children will admire. But while I try to create as best an example as possible, I know I\u2019m not perfect and that people need many role models to see themselves in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m not in the position to talk about the incredible power of female role models for women and girls, but I know that where you see those like yourself, you feel welcome and invited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sofia, I hope you\u2019re able to find many icons who inspire you to act, think, and live in a way that makes you feel free and fulfilled.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pursue Your Dreams, No Matter What Stops You<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are few things worse than feeling shackled to your place in life, but I also know that it takes incredible courage and determination to shatter these bindings and go where you feel whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Success is a path through forests, over ravines, and across oceans, but I hope my daughter will possess an unshakable belief in herself and that every second of her life is spent the way she wants.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find Someone Who Loves You for You<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although it may sound hokey to some, I genuinely believe that love has the power to move mountains, shake a person\u2019s world, and elevate your existence and happiness beyond what you could ever do alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dasha has changed my life, and I strive to be a better person every time I see her face or hear her name. I want my daughter to experience this unshakable joy and be free to pursue the love of whoever she believes is her soulmate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/girlchild\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Day of the Girl Child<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we take the time to assess how we as parents are building a better world for our daughters, and the only way we can create these opportunities is by working together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit my website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to hear a podcast where Dasha and I talk to our good friends, Sunny and Martin, about what parenting means in this day and age.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was International Day of the Girl Child, and this is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the girls we are raising and refocus our efforts to helping them create the &#8230; <a title=\"The Lessons I Leave for My Daughter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/the-lessons-i-leave-for-my-daughter\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Lessons I Leave for My Daughter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,71],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Muraly-with-his-Daughter.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qodemakers.com\/muralys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}