{"id":62404,"date":"2025-06-02T10:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62404"},"modified":"2025-06-02T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:32:52","slug":"mommy-im-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62404","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMommy, I\u2019m Scared\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"922\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-84.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-84.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-84-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At 2:25 PM on a typical Friday, Lara\u2019s six-year-old son, Ben, called, whispering, \u201cMommy, I\u2019m afraid.\u201d Racing home, Lara found their babysitter, Ruby, unconscious. Ben, terrified but calm, had tried to help\u2014placing a cold pack on Ruby\u2019s head and hiding in the closet. The scene dredged up a painful memory: when Lara and Ben had found his father dead two years earlier. Paramedics later confirmed Ruby had fainted from dehydration and low blood sugar. That night, Lara comforted Ben, who struggled to understand Ruby\u2019s collapse wasn\u2019t like his father\u2019s death. Watching him fall asleep clutching his dinosaur, Lara realized her son had faced fear with remarkable bravery\u2014losing a piece of childhood in the process. Parenting, she reflected, isn\u2019t just about shielding children; it\u2019s about honoring their courage and striving to be worthy of their strength. That night, Lara sat by Ben\u2019s bed, holding his hand, knowing he was her steady light\u2014and she, the one truly in need of rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALSO READ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:25 PM on a typical Friday, Lara\u2019s six-year-old son, Ben, called, whispering, \u201cMommy, I\u2019m afraid.\u201d Racing home, Lara found their babysitter, Ruby, unconscious. Ben, terrified but&#8230; <\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62406,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404\/revisions\/62406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}