{"id":1477,"date":"2009-04-20T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2024-09-24T07:33:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:33:54","slug":"thoughts-on-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2009\/04\/20\/thoughts-on-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple links related to parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>First, a funny list by the father of a young daughter. I think about stuff like this all the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a.wholelottanothing.org\/2009\/04\/conversations-ill-someday-have-with-my-daughter-that-will-make-little-to-no-sense-to-her.html\">Conversations I&#8217;ll someday have with my daughter that will make little to no sense to her no matter how much I try to explain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second, I liked this post on ShysterBall about buying a son his first real baseball cap. It got me thinking about how I&#8217;ve not pushed my sports teams on my kids. Yet. They know about daddy&#8217;s Jayhawks, but they&#8217;re either told by their mother to give daddy some space when he&#8217;s watching KU, or the games take place well after they&#8217;re in bed. Both M. and C. have KU shirts, but they&#8217;re not in high rotation.<\/p>\n<p>M. will ask me who I want to win when I&#8217;m watching a game, but that&#8217;s about as far as her interest goes. After reading the hat post, I wondered if the old gender double standard was coming into play. Would I be more active in pushing my teams on my kids if I had boys? Would I be pushing sports in general on them more than I&#8217;ve done with the girls so far? Probably, a little. But the girls have shown interest in Disney princesses and Barbies, and I&#8217;ve supported that habit,* so it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m neglecting them.<\/p>\n<p>(Admittedly reluctantly.)<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you like baseball, ShysterBall is a must read each day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardballtimes.com\/main\/shysterball\/article\/carlo-and-the-caps\/\">Carlo and the Caps<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple links related to parenthood. First, a funny list by the father of a young daughter. I think about stuff like this all the time. Conversations I&#8217;ll someday have with my daughter that will make little to no sense to her no matter how much I try to explain Second, I liked this post on ShysterBall about buying a son his first real baseball cap. It got me thinking about how I&#8217;ve not pushed my sports teams on my kids. Yet. They know about daddy&#8217;s Jayhawks, but they&#8217;re either told by their mother to give daddy some space when he&#8217;s watching KU, or the games take place well after they&#8217;re in bed. Both M. and C. have KU shirts, but they&#8217;re not in high rotation. M. will ask me who I want to win when I&#8217;m watching a game, but that&#8217;s about as far as her interest goes. After reading the hat post, I wondered if the old gender double standard was coming into play. Would I be more active in pushing my teams on my kids if I had boys? Would I be pushing sports in general on them more than I&#8217;ve done with the girls so far? Probably, a little. But the girls have shown interest in Disney princesses and Barbies, and I&#8217;ve supported that habit,* so it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m neglecting them. (Admittedly reluctantly.) By the way, if you like baseball, ShysterBall is a must read each day. Carlo and the Caps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,26,19,14],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-family","tag-links","tag-parenting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15058,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/15058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}