{"id":60,"date":"2023-06-12T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T02:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/?p=60"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:19:16","slug":"parenting-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/parenting-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting is Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For those who don\u2019t have kids, here\u2019s a news flash: Parenting is a waking nightmare that never ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that\u2019s the case if you care. You want to teach them the important lessons in life but fear the unknown: you don\u2019t know if you used the right words for them to best understand, you don\u2019t know if you used the right tone to best convey importance, you don\u2019t know a lot of things because humans are freaking complex machines with emotional overrides. Did they sulk away thinking only that I know nothing and don\u2019t care, or did they sulk away contemplating the correction I offered to help life go even a little bit easier for them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hell if I know because I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t know a lot of things, and I will likely die not knowing if my parenting helped them be prepared for the adult world or just messed them up. I fear the latter. Maybe it\u2019s better that I don\u2019t know, but I hate not knowing the best choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least I care and try; I\u2019ve got that going for me. Everything else is a crap shoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who don\u2019t have kids, here\u2019s a news flash: Parenting is a waking nightmare that never ends. Well, that\u2019s the case if you care. You want to teach them the important lessons in life but fear the unknown: you don\u2019t know if you used the right words for them to best understand, you don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}