{"id":155,"date":"2011-06-14T13:44:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T17:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dadequate\/?p=155"},"modified":"2011-06-14T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T17:44:45","slug":"milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/milestones.html","title":{"rendered":"Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Parents and their children<\/strong> share a few common milestones over the life of a family. There&#8217;s the first day of kindergarten, the first day of middle school, the first day of high school, graduation day, and then one more moment of high significance:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the day she gets her braces off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dadequate\/files\/2011\/06\/93ae2a2e7ee34b059ec02f6a3527a8e6_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-156\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/262\/2011\/06\/93ae2a2e7ee34b059ec02f6a3527a8e6_7-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and their children share a few common milestones over the life of a family. There&#8217;s the first day of kindergarten, the first day of middle school, the first day of high school, graduation day, and then one more moment of high significance: &#8230;the day she gets her braces off. 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