{"id":12654,"date":"2026-01-30T19:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=12654"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:42:50","slug":"the-response-that-made-the-school-psychologist-stop-and-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=12654","title":{"rendered":"The Response That Made the School Psychologist Stop and Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"227\">It started with a call from my school\u2014not about a missing lunch, but a <em data-start=\"178\" data-end=\"194\">please come in<\/em> kind of call. My mom panicked.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"229\" data-end=\"356\">The school psychologist showed her a few pictures: potatoes, carrots, beets. \u201cWhat would you call these together?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"358\" data-end=\"386\">\u201cVegetables,\u201d my mom said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"388\" data-end=\"464\">\u201cYour daughter said\u2026 \u2018ingredients.\u2019 Specifically, \u2018ingredients for soup.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"691\">Mom blinked. I shrugged. To me, potatoes weren\u2019t vegetables\u2014they were mashed potatoes, fries, soup bases. Carrots weren\u2019t vegetables\u2014they were snacks, cake ingredients, things chopped on a stool. I saw function, not labels.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"919\">The psychologist explained: nothing was wrong. I just thought practically. A chair isn\u2019t for sitting\u2014it\u2019s for standing on to reach high places. A bed isn\u2019t for sleeping\u2014it\u2019s for reading, hiding snacks, pretending to be sick.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"921\" data-end=\"977\">Mom laughed. \u201cSo she\u2019s not troubled. She\u2019s just\u2026 you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"979\" data-end=\"1168\">Years later, the story still comes up at family dinners. Some see categories. Others see patterns and purpose. I see <strong data-start=\"1096\" data-end=\"1120\">ingredients for soup<\/strong>. And honestly? That\u2019s more fun anyway. \ud83e\udd55\ud83e\udd54\ud83e\udd63<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It started with a call from my school\u2014not about a missing lunch, but a please come in kind of call. My mom panicked. The school psychologist showed her a few pictures: potatoes, carrots, beets. \u201cWhat would you call these together?\u201d she asked. \u201cVegetables,\u201d my mom said. \u201cYour daughter said\u2026 \u2018ingredients.\u2019 Specifically, \u2018ingredients for soup.\u2019\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12656,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions\/12656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}