{"id":329,"date":"2008-04-09T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/04\/good-mommy.html"},"modified":"2008-04-09T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T05:35:00","slug":"good-mommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/04\/good-mommy.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Mommy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0033-736791.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[329]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0033-736562.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Adam questioned my parenting techniques. Was it &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; or &#8220;idiotic&#8221;? Can&#8217;t remember. He seems to think it isn&#8217;t a good idea, when it&#8217;s an hour past your child&#8217;s bedtime and said child announces, &#8220;I&#8217;m tired,&#8221; to then crank up the iPod, hand the kid a drum, and yell at him, &#8220;No! Sleep! Till! Brooklyn!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To my credit, he did rally. The kid that is. Not Adam. And Pie? She never let them see her sweat. She grabbed the guitar, started hopping up and down, singing right along. &#8220;Dance, Mommy!&#8221; she screamed over the music. I picked her up and did the mommy version of the mosh pit. I yelled, &#8220;Are you going to be a party girl, Pie?&#8221; and she yelled back, &#8220;Yea!&#8221; Finally, a child I can identify as my own!<\/p>\n<p>To preschool folks reading this, don&#8217;t be surprised when Pie shows up to school, bags under her eyes, yelling, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to fight! For my right! To par-tay!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rock on, little kiddies. Rock on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam questioned my parenting techniques. Was it &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; or &#8220;idiotic&#8221;? Can&#8217;t remember. He seems to think it isn&#8217;t a good idea, when it&#8217;s an hour past your child&#8217;s bedtime and said child announces, &#8220;I&#8217;m tired,&#8221; to then crank up the iPod, hand the kid a drum, and yell at him, &#8220;No! Sleep! Till! Brooklyn!&#8221; To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}