{"id":3359,"date":"2012-12-22T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T13:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2013-08-30T22:39:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T02:39:52","slug":"poking-fun-at-alpha-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/poking-fun-at-alpha-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Poking Fun at Alpha Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an excerpt from an articled titled, “Why You’re Never Failing as a Mother<\/a>,” from the website\/blog Pregnant Chicken.<\/p>\n

\nYou are in the trenches when you have a baby. To the untrained eye it seems pretty straightforward and easy \u2013 you feed them, you bathe them, you pick them up when they cry \u2013 but it\u2019s more than that. It\u2019s perpetual motion with a generous layer of guilt and self-doubt spread on top, and that takes its toll.<\/p>\n

Feeling like you also need to keep on top of scrapbooking, weight loss, up-cycled onesies, handprints, crock pot meals, car seat recalls, sleeping patterns, poo consistency, pro-biotic supplements, swimming lessons, electromagnetic fields in your home and television exposure, is like trying to knit on a rollercoaster \u2013 it\u2019s [omitted swearword] hard.<\/p>\n

We live in a time when we can [G]oogle everything, share ideas, and expose our children to amazing opportunities, but anyone that implies that they have it figured out is either drunk or lying (or both) so don\u2019t be too hard on yourself.<\/p>\n

Your job is to provide your child with food, shelter, encouragement and love, and that doesn\u2019t have to be solely provided by you either \u2013 feel free to outsource because they didn\u2019t just pull that \u201cit takes a village\u201d proverb out of the air.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a similar tone, I’ll point you to a recent poem I read in the New Yorker<\/em> magazine titled, “Goodnight Nanny-Cam<\/a>,” which is parody of the book, Goodnight Moon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is an excerpt from an articled titled, “Why You’re Never Failing as a Mother,” from the website\/blog Pregnant Chicken. You are in the trenches when you have a baby. To the untrained eye it seems pretty straightforward and easy \u2013 you feed them, you bathe them, you pick them up when they cry \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[414,246,804,446],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-baby","tag-funny","tag-humor","tag-mother"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}