{"id":2962,"date":"2020-03-20T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T08:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2020-03-20T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T08:24:06","slug":"are-these-testing-times-or-resting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/are-these-testing-times-or-resting-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine! Are these testing times or resting times?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are these the testing times for humanity, yes indeed they\nare? Are these testing times for parents, well that I am unsure off? Parenting\nitself is a lifelong testing phase, you test each other\u2019s patience all\nthroughout. You may wonder why I lay so much stress on parenting and its\ndifferent emotions. Often parenting is considered as the most natural\nphenomenon for anyone. Can we teach someone, how to parent? I doubt we can! As\nparents, we know best for our own kids and even if we sometimes don\u2019t, we learn\nand experiment and finally get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These times of self-quarantine feel like an oasis in the\nmiddle of a desert. I still don\u2019t know if the schools will re-open in April and\nI am not yet thinking of the more than 3 month old vacation. I am however beginning\nto enjoy the little break that the universe has conspired us into. The break\nthat mother nature needed to recuperate and the break that we need to up our\nmental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is just my guesswork which as always, I am\nhoping is true!! The outdoor activity has substantially reduced hence reducing\nair pollution. The littering should be reduced with lesser people now venturing\noutdoors. &nbsp;Everyone is pushed to embrace\nhealthy and organic eating. The skies are clearer and bluer. People are using\nless words of profanity because the traffic is comparatively lesser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The businesses have certainly experienced a setback however\nI am glad that the grocery stores are making some money because of the insane\namount of stocking up people are trying to do!! Families are learning the tact\nof patience and hard work once again. It is indeed a great talent to be able to\naccommodate with people of different mindsets for so many days together.\nChildren are happier because parents are more interested in vesting time with\ntheir kids. We are all gradually tilting back to the times where childhood mean\nunfiltered happiness and family time meant, eating, playing, cooking and\nstaying together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world is unfortunately battling with a pandemic however\nthe plight of some nations have given us time and ways to protect ourselves. We\nare pushed to go back to our roots and enjoy the uncomplicated pleasures of\nlife. People are all out on social media with pictures of their real selves and\ntheir real lives. People are appreciating the worth of not juggling the hustle\nbustle for a while and taking it slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us all follow directives given by our Hon\u2019ble Prime\nMinister and other health and government bodies. We are just being asked to\nsocially distance ourselves. We are not being asked to distance ourselves with\nher mental and physical health. This time is literally yours, make the most of\nit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are these the testing times for humanity, yes indeed they are? Are these testing times for parents, well that I am unsure off? Parenting itself is a lifelong testing phase, you test each other\u2019s patience all throughout. You may wonder why I lay so much stress on parenting and its different emotions. Often parenting is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[55,3],"tags":[6],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"55":{"name":"Lifestyle","link":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/category\/lifestyle\/"},"3":{"name":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/category\/musing\/"}},"tags_names":{"6":{"name":"musings","link":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/tag\/musings\/"}},"comments_number":"5","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decodinglives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}