{"id":1463,"date":"2025-05-06T21:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2025-05-06T21:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:31:12","slug":"why-what-for-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/why-what-for-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Why? What for? How?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout childhood and adolescence, kids are naturally full of questions. But as they grow, many of those questions start hitting walls like:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m busy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsk me later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When they don\u2019t find answers at home, they look elsewhere: from friends, social media, forums, and videos online\u2026And there, without filters or guidance, they come across messages like:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody does it, it\u2019s not a big deal.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIf it feels good, it can\u2019t be wrong.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cDon\u2019t tell your parents \u2014 they won\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how they get exposed to distorted ideas about:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sex and relationships<br \/>\n\u2022 Substance use<br \/>\n\u2022 Mental Health<br \/>\n\u2022 Dismorphia from body image<br \/>\n\u2022 Violence and self-harm<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, what can we do as parents?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Listen before we judge<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Respond, honestly and informed yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout childhood and adolescence, kids are naturally full of questions. But as they grow, many of those questions start hitting<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annieplengecounselor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}