{"id":602,"date":"2014-05-14T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/?p=602"},"modified":"2014-05-14T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:11:06","slug":"a-mothers-prayer-for-her-child-by-tina-fey-write-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/parenting\/a-mothers-prayer-for-her-child-by-tina-fey-write-in-color","title":{"rendered":"A Mother’s Prayer for Her Child By Tina Fey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actress Tina Fey, has written a lovely little note called A Mother’s Prayer for Her Child<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of excerpts for you (note – it’s written as a prayer to God, so read it from that point of view):<\/p>\n

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Lead her away from Acting but not all the way to Finance.<\/strong> Something where she can make her own hours but still feel intellectually fulfilled and get outside sometimes And not have to wear high heels. What would that be, Lord? Architecture? Midwifery? Golf course design? I\u2019m asking You, because if I knew, I\u2019d be doing it, Youdammit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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And should she choose to be a Mother one day, be my eyes, Lord, that I may see her, lying on a blanket on the floor at 4:50\u00a0A.M., all-at-once exhausted, bored, and in love with the little creature whose poop is leaking up its back. \u201cMy mother did this for me once,\u201d<\/strong> she will realize as she cleans feces off her baby\u2019s neck. \u201cMy mother did this for me.\u201d And the delayed gratitude will wash over her as it does each generation and she will make a Mental Note to call me. And she will forget. But I\u2019ll know, because I peeped it with Your God eyes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Actress Tina Fey, has written a lovely little note called A Mother’s Prayer for Her Child. Here are a couple of excerpts for you (note – it’s written as a prayer to God, so read it from that point of view): Lead her away from Acting but not all the way to Finance. Something where … Continue reading A Mother’s Prayer for Her Child By Tina Fey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[129,151,28,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}