{"id":343,"date":"2014-03-26T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T20:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2014-06-17T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T18:45:56","slug":"friendship-spiritual-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/friendship-spiritual-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship and Spiritual Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/files\/2014\/03\/vintagewomen.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>A\u00a0recent UCLA on women&#8217;s friendships reflects similar findings to my own\u00a0on early childhood educators\u2019 perceptions of spiritual development of young children.<a href=\"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/files\/2014\/03\/vintagewomen-e1401395375232.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-362 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/files\/2014\/03\/vintagewomen-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"vintage women\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quality of relationships is so fundamental to our spiritual needs. The UCLA study\u00a0actually acknowledges that \u201cfriendship makes our lives manageable, fulfilling, and spiritually and emotionally healthy, which means we are better able to cope with the stresses and challenges society hands to us daily. Our children, grandchildren and students, the kids in our world neighborhood, need us to function well in order to provide them with even their basic needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to one of my peer&#8217;s thoughts on the UCLA study:\u00a0<a title=\"Tend and befriend - Irene Lipshin on UCLA study\" href=\"http:\/\/picturepoet-irene.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/friendship.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/picturepoet-irene.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/friendship.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what others think about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0recent UCLA on women&#8217;s friendships reflects similar findings to my own\u00a0on early childhood educators\u2019 perceptions of spiritual development of young children. The quality of relationships is so fundamental to our spiritual needs. The UCLA study\u00a0actually acknowledges that \u201cfriendship makes our lives manageable, fulfilling, and spiritually and emotionally healthy, which means we are better able to<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/friendship-spiritual-development\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,15],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/files\/2014\/03\/vintagewomen-e1401395375232.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}