{"id":407,"date":"2021-09-27T15:52:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/?p=407"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:52:24","slug":"mencius-mother-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/2021\/09\/27\/mencius-mother-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Mencius\u2019 Mother Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The story \u201cMencius\u2019 Mother,\u201d recounts Mencius\u2019 upbringing and brings up several important aspects of raising children in China. One recurring idea I noticed throughout the story is that Mencius\u2019 mother is very careful about the environment that her son is raised in. For example, at the beginning of the story, when Mencius is very little, the text notes that he liked to play burial rituals in the cemetery. However, his mother asserts \u201cThis is no place to bring up my son.\u201d Next, they move near the town marketplace, but once again, she feels like this is not a good place to raise her son. When they move again, they live near a schoolhouse and finally, his mother feels that this is the right place for him, and what he sees and hears around him here is a good influence on him. Mencius\u2019 mother also trains her son to develop morals and instills values in him based on the behaviors he sees around him on a day-to-day basis. The story sheds light on the dedication that Menicus\u2019 mother had to provide her son with a good education, revealed in the fact that they moved three times, and also is a great example of the outstanding contributions that women have made to early Chinese history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story \u201cMencius\u2019 Mother,\u201d recounts Mencius\u2019 upbringing and brings up several important aspects of raising children in China. One recurring idea I noticed throughout the story is that Mencius\u2019 mother is very careful about the environment that her son is raised in. For example, at the beginning of the story, when Mencius is very little,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/2021\/09\/27\/mencius-mother-reflection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mencius\u2019 Mother Reflection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}