{"id":2705,"date":"2025-07-03T06:17:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=2705"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:19:54","slug":"why-my-mom-was-so-hard-on-us","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/why-my-mom-was-so-hard-on-us\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Feature: Why my mother was so hard on us as kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior New Voices Fellow <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/our_fellows\/esther-ngumbi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esther Ndumi Ngumbi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> candidly shares the conversations she had been holding back on having with her strict mother, until now. In the latest NPR Goats and Soda section, a mother\u2019s sacrifices for her daughter, her advice, and the challenges of motherhood are all etched out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her mother echoes: \u201cI sacrificed my social life, money and time. But I would do it all over again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the interview below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Image: Bertha Ngumbi with her daughter&#8211;Family photo taken from <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NPR Goats and Soda section and Esther Ndumi Ngumbi<\/span> &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2706,"template":"","publication_category":[47,49],"publication_theme":[84,68],"class_list":["post-2705","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","featured-featured","featured-featured-bottom","publication_category-mainstream-media","publication_category-oped","publication_theme-education","publication_theme-youth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}