{"id":2238,"date":"2020-05-01T20:15:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/?page_id=2238"},"modified":"2020-05-01T20:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:15:43","slug":"a-general","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/a-general\/","title":{"rendered":"A.\u00a0General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\">Being a parent of\u00a0a second level student in today\u2019s world is not easy.\u00a0<b>Pressures\u00a0<\/b>emanating\u00a0from many different sources inevitably give rise to\u00a0<b>stress<\/b>\u00a0which in turn\u00a0can result in\u00a0<b>conflict.<\/b>\u00a0Success today demands much greater commitment\u00a0from the student than in the past. \u2018Qualification Inflation\u2019 has resulted in\u00a0the need for higher and higher educational attainment in order to secure a\u00a0preferred job choice or third level place. Parents need to see things as they\u00a0are today, not as they were in the past. Most students require the\u00a0<b>positive\u00a0and active encouragement and support<\/b>\u00a0of their parents \u2013 even though at\u00a0times it may not seem this way! Parents must try to juggle all the demands of\u00a0modem living,\u00a0<b>keep the lines of communication open<\/b>\u00a0(even during\u00a0difficult times), work at resolving conflict when it arises, and reach\u00a0<b>agreed\u00a0compromise<\/b>\u00a0when appropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a parent of\u00a0a second level student in today\u2019s world is not easy.\u00a0Pressures\u00a0emanating\u00a0from many different sources inevitably give rise to\u00a0stress\u00a0which in turn\u00a0can result in\u00a0conflict.\u00a0Success today demands much greater commitment\u00a0from the student than in the past. \u2018Qualification Inflation\u2019 has resulted in\u00a0the need for higher and higher educational attainment in order to secure a\u00a0preferred job choice or<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/a-general\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2238\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}