{"id":19763,"date":"2010-06-04T16:34:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T00:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19763"},"modified":"2010-06-04T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T00:37:27","slug":"you-should-earn-self-esteem-by-doing-estimable-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19763","title":{"rendered":"You Should Earn Self-Esteem By Doing Estimable Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;That&#8217;s the only estimable coinage. The rest is counterfeit. Counterfeit self-esteem either produces narcissism or profound unhappiness when the day comes that I recognize it has been counterfeit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Caller: &#8220;We have a 14-year old girl and she is probably our biggest challenge. Any time we correct her, she accuses us of judging her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis: &#8220;The next time your daughter says, &#8216;You&#8217;re judging me&#8217;, the answer is, &#8216;You&#8217;re correct. I am.&#8217; What will she say then?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, I am judging you. And guess what, darling? Everyone you meet will judge you until the day you die. That is the human lot &#8212; to be judged. Just as you judge others. You didn&#8217;t choose everybody at school to be your friend. You judged who you think is nice, who you think is mean, who you think is fun, who you think is boring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every one of us judge all the time. The problem is when we judge unfairly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is just as important that we judge you as it is that we love you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;That&#8217;s the only estimable coinage. The rest is counterfeit. Counterfeit self-esteem either produces narcissism or profound unhappiness when the day comes that I recognize it has been counterfeit.&#8221; Caller: &#8220;We have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19763\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29761,4153,1453,2282,1454],"class_list":["post-19763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-dennis-prager","tag-old-girl","tag-radio-show","tag-self-esteem","tag-unhappiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19765,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763\/revisions\/19765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}