{"id":71060,"date":"2017-04-21T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/?p=71060"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T18:01:34","slug":"what-would-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/uncategorized\/what-would-you-say","title":{"rendered":"Listen up old me, I have something to tell you&#8230;.| GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse Syracuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GiGi\u2019s Playhouse is looking to hear from you, our friends and families (new and old) so each month we will be asking a question and would love to feature you in upcoming #gigisblog posts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #f58220\"><strong>The April question is \u2013 If you could go back in time to the day you received a Down syndrome diagnosis, what would you tell yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-126133 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/8pa6i2zwhi520nmq7s560ezsd-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/olivia-1024x717.jpg\" alt=\"GiGi's Playhouse\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love this question! If I could go back 12 years from this coming September 19th when a physician came into my room and said I could leave my baby on a table and walk away because she would never roll or walk or do anything \u2013 what would I tell myself?!<\/p>\n<h3>don\u2019t fear the unknown or better yet don\u2019t try to control the unknown!<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s going to happen and we can\u2019t prepare for it as we wish we could! I\u2019ve written before how random flashes of our future kept me awake at night. Would she ride a bike, would she go to college, and more things that I could not answer or control! I\u2019ve learned so much in 19 years of being a parent and being a parent to a child with Down syndrome has enhanced that, \u00a0made me a better person, I think I\u2019m more understanding, compassionate, forgiving or maybe not (don\u2019t ask my kids).\u00a0? \u00a0I have learned that I\u2019m going to have fears and the only thing I can do is keep moving forward educating and providing acceptance and awareness!\u201d ~ Olivia\u2019s mom, Daniell<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-126132\" src=\"https:\/\/8pa6i2zwhi520nmq7s560ezsd-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14354978_10206939770714742_47834830616389007_n.jpg\" alt=\"GiGi's Playhouse \" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We would love to hear from you! \u00a0Please send you answer to Heather at hrodriguez@gigisplayhouse.org for a chance to be featured on the GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Blog.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-69490\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/files\/2016\/05\/genG-150x150.png\" alt=\"GiGi's Playhouse Syracuse\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>educate.inspire.believe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GiGi\u2019s Playhouse is looking to hear from you, our friends and families (new and old) so each month we will be asking a question and would love to feature you in upcoming #gigisblog posts. The April question is \u2013 If you could go back in time to the day you received a Down syndrome diagnosis,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}