{"id":1500,"date":"2009-01-23T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentingteensblog.net\/?p=113"},"modified":"2009-01-23T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T22:27:16","slug":"reason-123351230435821-that-i-am-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2009\/01\/23\/reason-123351230435821-that-i-am-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"reason 123351230435821 that I am Doomed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parentingteensblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pupnewdo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"pupnewdo\" title=\"pupnewdo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-775\" \/>Proof positive that 1 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parentingteensblog.com\/hitting-the-soft-spot\/\">she&#8217;s fine<\/a>, and 2 &#8211; I&#8217;m doomed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibit 1, yesterday evening:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> So &#8211; how was your day? The boys give you any grief?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pup:<\/strong> Was good, and not really, well kinda &#8211; see they were all up in our space and stealing the ice chunks we were collecting on the playground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> &#8216;all up in your&#8230;&#8217; wait, what? &#8230;ice chunks? You were collecting ice chunks?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pup:<\/strong> of course. it&#8217;s what we do. Duh. So anyway, I did my lil thing so the teacher gets them in trouble without me being a tattle tale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> &#8230;you have a &#8216;lil thing&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pup:<\/strong> well YEAH. Duh. You see, you stand up and then make your face go all sad like this, and then you just walk slooooooooowly past a teacher. And then their all like &#8216;What&#8217;s wrong?!&#8217; and you just tell them an say &#8216;but I don&#8217;t wanna be a tattle tale&#8217; and BOOM! Teacher takes care of it and no one thinks you tattled at all because you didn&#8217;t really because you just answered the teachers question and that&#8217;s the way it works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong>&#8230;.expert manipulator at 9. Doomed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibit B, 7:30 am this morning:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> So you&#8217;re going to aunties after school right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pup:<\/strong> Yup! Pizza\/Movie night! Auntie said!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s your bus pass. And call me when you get to Auntie&#8217;s so I know you made it ok.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pup:<\/strong> Why, because the roads are icy still?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> No, because I like knowing where you are every moment of the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pup:<\/strong> Oh. in that case. I&#8217;m standing by the door. Now Papa honked, so I&#8217;m opening the door. Now I&#8217;m RUNNING AWAY FROM YOU! And Mom? NOW I&#8217;M GETTING IN PAPA&#8217;S CAR, OK? And now we&#8217;re driving away&#8230; and now&#8230; (fades)<\/p>\n<p>Doooooooomed.<br \/>\nAbsolutely doooooomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proof positive that 1 &#8211; she&#8217;s fine, and 2 &#8211; I&#8217;m doomed. Exhibit 1, yesterday evening: Me: So &#8211; how was your day? The boys give you any grief? Pup: Was good, and not really, well kinda &#8211; see they were all up in our space and stealing the ice chunks we were collecting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,140,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior","category-daughters","category-pre-teens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}