{"id":651,"date":"2014-10-08T14:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2014-10-08T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:34:26","slug":"it-takes-strength-to-lift-others-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/it-takes-strength-to-lift-others-up\/","title":{"rendered":"It takes strength to lift others up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love this idea, and it seems particularly apropos during National Bullying Prevention Month (We came out with a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Gorilla-Joy-M-Dey\/dp\/0985322829\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1412696992&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=one+gorilla\">kids book<\/a> on kindness recently, for anyone who missed that). I also think this is a great way to get the message across to kids. Of course we should help others and be kind and compassionate, but what kid doesn&rsquo;t want to be seen as a superhero? If we teach them to value strength, then we need to teach them that standing&nbsp;beside&nbsp;others TAKES strength.<\/p>\n<p>Ok ok, I&rsquo;m off my high horse now. All I really wanted to do was share this quote image, since I&rsquo;m working on my lettering. I had a lot of fun making it and it seemed to fit. I&rsquo;ve seen various versions (for example, Michael Watson is quoted as saying &ldquo;Strong people don&rsquo;t put others down&hellip; They lift them up.&rdquo;), so the wording is mine, but the idea comes from standing on the backs of giants \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_652\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/strength_quote.jpg\" class=\" wwm_socialshare_imagewrapper \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-image-652 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/strength_quote-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/strength_quote-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/strength_quote.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">art by Anna Skarie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Be strong, be kind, and most importantly, be yourself today&hellip;or be the gorilla! Because sometimes that&rsquo;s just more fun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wwm_social_share wwm_top_left\"><li class=\"wwm_facebook\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_twitter\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_gplus\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_pinit\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_tumblr\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_linked\"><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this idea, and it seems particularly apropos during National Bullying Prevention Month (We came out with a great kids book on kindness recently, for anyone who missed that). I also think this is a great way to get the message across to kids. Of course we should help others and be kind and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JhDF-av","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}