{"id":496,"date":"2026-05-26T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:36:49","slug":"notes-on-raising-a-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Raising a Teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just leaving this here for later&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe and His Daughter Esme -\u00a0The Teenage Years\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eg70lbiElrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As usual, Joe zeroes in on some strong emotional points. One of the most interesting parts for me is that his thought process is: &#8220;If you&#8217;re taking care of yourself, if you&#8217;re participating in the family, and you&#8217;re being good to people, then you get as much freedom as you want.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just leaving this here for later&#8230; As usual, Joe zeroes in on some strong emotional points. One of the most interesting parts for me is that his thought process is: &#8220;If you&#8217;re taking care of yourself, if you&#8217;re participating in the family, and you&#8217;re being good to people, then you get as much freedom as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemplation","category-inspiration","category-interesting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}