{"id":4258,"date":"2016-10-16T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2016-10-16T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T06:05:00","slug":"be-kind-to-your-four-footed-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/be-kind-to-your-four-footed-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Kind to Your Four-Footed Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A verse from a nature song that my children like to listen to says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe kind to your four-footed friends,<br \/>\nBe kind to your four-footed friends,<br \/>\nA poke makes a turtle retreat at both ends,<br \/>\nAnd you can&#8217;t make a turtle come out, come out,<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t make a turtle come out\u201d (Malvina Reynolds)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4261\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4261\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-2.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-2\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4262\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4262\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-3.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-3\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4263\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4263\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-4.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-4\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-5-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4264\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4264\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-5-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-5-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4265\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-5-2.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-5-2\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When my three-year-old son finds a toad and is being less than gentle, I like to sing that to him as a reminder that even the smallest creature deserves to be treated with kindness. From the very start, I try to teach them that all creatures are God\u2019s creatures, worthy of being cherished and respected. I tell them this, and do my best to model it for them through my own interest and appreciation. An attitude of kindness is therefore born from valuing the other. This is also key in teaching children kindness towards other people; they learn that everyone is God\u2019s creation and therefore valuable and deserving of their kindness, be they toad or toddler.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-11.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4273\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4273\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-11.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-11\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4260\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4260\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-1.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4266\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-6.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-6\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-7.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4267\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4267\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-7.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-7\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-8.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4268\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-8.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-8\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-9.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4269\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-9.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-9\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-10.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4270\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4270\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bekind-10.jpg\" alt=\"bekind-10\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3255\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.hellodearest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NoelMillerBio_image_small.jpg?resize=125%2C165\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.hellodearest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NoelMillerBio_image_small.jpg?resize=100%2C132 100w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.hellodearest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NoelMillerBio_image_small.jpg?w=125 125w\" alt=\"NoelMillerBio_image_small\" width=\"125\" height=\"165\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No\u00ebl Miller is a stay-at-home mother, writer and photographer. She was born and raised in Chicagoland where she lives with her husband and their three little ones (ages baby to five). She writes about faith, family, and home at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theologyofpie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.theologyofpie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A verse from a nature song that my children like to listen to says: \u201cBe kind to your four-footed friends, Be kind to your four-footed friends, A poke makes a turtle retreat at both ends, And you can&#8217;t make a turtle come out, come out, You can&#8217;t make a turtle come out\u201d (Malvina Reynolds) When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":4259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[746,675,665,749,750,433,754],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-efforts","tag-friends","tag-generation","tag-infuse","tag-kinder","tag-kindness","tag-ripples"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}