{"id":36721,"date":"2014-06-18T08:28:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T08:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36721"},"modified":"2016-06-06T15:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:42:22","slug":"when-dad-wiped-away-my-tears-accepting-a-childs-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36721","title":{"rendered":"When Dad Wiped Away My Tears: Accepting a Child&#8217;s Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/finding-meaning-in-life-s-struggles\/201406\/when-dad-wiped-away-my-tears\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>When Dad Wiped Away My Tears: Accepting a Child&#8217;s Vulnerability<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\" target=\"_blank\">Psychology Today<\/a><br \/>\n2014-06-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/experts\/stephen-murphy-shigematsu-edd\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I thought summer camp would be endless fun. My two best friends were going and I wanted to go with them so badly I asked my dad to lie about my age so I could get in. I was seven and you were supposed to be eight. Dad liked my spunk, so he changed my birthday on the application and I got to go to the two-week overnight camp. On Father&#8217;s Day I always remember this story with gratitude and want to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>Camp Russell wasn\u2019t quite what I had dreamed about. It wasn&#8217;t a rich kids\u2019 camp, but the Boy\u2019s Club camp and was full of tough kids from all over the city. I was scared and tried not to be noticed, but as the only Asian kid there I stood out everywhere I went. Kids would whisper to each other when I walked by or shout from a distance, &#8220;Hey Jap&#8221; or \u201cChing, Chong, Chinaman!\u201d and everyone would laugh or pretend to speak Chinese. I didn\u2019t know what to do. There were too many and they were too big to fight. So I pretended not to hear anything and no one approached me or threatened me. I was big for my age and I heard them joking that I knew karate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/finding-meaning-in-life-s-struggles\/201406\/when-dad-wiped-away-my-tears\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Dad Wiped Away My Tears: Accepting a Child&#8217;s Vulnerability Psychology Today 2014-06-15 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D. Stanford University I thought summer camp would be endless fun. My two best friends were going and I wanted to go with them so badly I asked my dad to lie about my age so I could get in. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,125,8,20],"tags":[3532,512],"class_list":["post-36721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-psychology-today","tag-stephen-murphy-shigematsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47359,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36721\/revisions\/47359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}