{"id":4994,"date":"2015-07-27T05:26:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askdoctorg.com\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2021-05-10T14:01:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:01:10","slug":"are-you-pushing-your-kid-to-grow-up-too-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askdoctorg.com\/are-you-pushing-your-kid-to-grow-up-too-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Pushing your Kid to Grow Up Too Fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/39qUrd8cLdI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Kids are more mature these days.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This may very well be true, but there are a bunch of areas where we are allowing &#8211; maybe even pushing &#8211; our kids to jump well above their age. Are we hurting them? 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