{"id":11596,"date":"2022-08-21T12:25:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T16:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11596"},"modified":"2022-08-07T09:26:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:26:37","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-helping-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11596","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Porphyrios on Helping Children\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You need to be careful when you encourage children. You mustn\u2019t\u00a0 say to a child, \u2018You\u2019ll succeed, you\u2019re great, you\u2019re young, and fearless, you\u2019re perfect!\u2019 This is not good for the child. You can teach the child to pray, and say ,\u2018The talents you have, have been given to you by God. Pray and God will give you strength to cultivate them and m a way you will succeed. God will give you His grace.\u2019 That is the\u00a0 best way.\u00a0\u00a0 Children should learn to seek God\u2019s help in everything.<\/p>\n<p>PRAISE\u00a0 is harmful to children\u2026the person who praises us leads us astray and perverts the paths of\u00a0 lofe;;;Praise does not prepare children for ^<\/p>\n<p>on difficulties in life and they grow up badly adjusted\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11597\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/27-Vatopedi-Monastery.-Mount-Athos-copy-682x1024-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/27-Vatopedi-Monastery.-Mount-Athos-copy-682x1024-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/27-Vatopedi-Monastery.-Mount-Athos-copy-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to be careful when you encourage children. You mustn\u2019t\u00a0 say to a child, \u2018You\u2019ll succeed, you\u2019re great, you\u2019re young, and fearless, you\u2019re perfect!\u2019 This is not good for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11598,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions\/11598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}