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<\/a><\/p>\nI walked in to the bookshelf and grabbed several more off the shelf to show Pete there was actually more than one and then read the titles:<\/p>\n
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- “Perfect Parenting<\/em>. Obviously, Daddy’s got this one down pat. Look, there’s even a bicycle on the cover because a perfect parent rides a bicycle.”<\/li>\n
- “When We’re in Public, Pretend You Don’t Know Me: Surviving Your Daughter’s Adolescence So You Don’t Look Like an Idiot and She Still Talks to You.<\/em> … Ok, this one, I think the secret is not to use so many words and you don’t look like an idiot.”<\/li>\n
- “101 Essential Tips: Cat Care<\/em>” [no comment–self explanatory]<\/li>\n
- “Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles<\/em>“<\/li>\n
- “and finally, Migraine: The Complete Guide<\/em>.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
(He finally ate the squash.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tonight at supper, Pete complained that he didn’t want to eat his squash because he didn’t like squash. Hard for most parents to imagine, I’m sure. I commented, “The parenting books say that if your child says he doesn’t like something, he should try it 15 times before you stop forcing it on him. 15 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-household","category-kids","category-pete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- “When We’re in Public, Pretend You Don’t Know Me: Surviving Your Daughter’s Adolescence So You Don’t Look Like an Idiot and She Still Talks to You.<\/em> … Ok, this one, I think the secret is not to use so many words and you don’t look like an idiot.”<\/li>\n