{"id":1364,"date":"2009-05-30T08:45:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2009-05-30T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:45:45","slug":"the-new-generation-of-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/05\/30\/the-new-generation-of-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"the new generation of parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes yes yes!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems as though the newest wave of mothers is saying no to prenatal Beethoven appreciation classes, homework tutors in kindergarten, or moving to a town near their child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s college campus so the darling can more easily have home-cooked meals. (O.K., O.K., many were already saying no, but now they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing so without the feeling that a good parent would say yes.) Over coffee and out in cyberspace they are gleefully labeling themselves \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bad mommies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pouring out their doubts, their dissatisfaction and their dysfunction, celebrating their own shortcomings in contrast to their older sisters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 cloying perfection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/31\/magazine\/31wwln-lede-t.html?_r=1\">Let the Kid Be &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes yes yes! It seems as though the newest wave of mothers is saying no to prenatal Beethoven appreciation classes, homework tutors in kindergarten, or moving to a town near their child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s college campus so the darling can more easily have home-cooked meals. (O.K., O.K., many were already saying no, but now they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-m0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}