{"id":70015,"date":"2022-02-21T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=70015"},"modified":"2022-02-20T09:05:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T14:05:37","slug":"qotd-parenting-dilemmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/02\/21\/qotd-parenting-dilemmas\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Parenting dilemmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>[&#8230;] quite possibly the ugliest thing your kid has ever made, and this presents you with one of those parenting dilemmas: What do you say when your child presents you with a handmade gift, and it looks like something a clown threw up after washing down a box of crayons with a quart of Ripple?<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, you&#8217;re touched they made something for you, and you want to reward their creative desires. On the other hand, if you accept everything uncritically, they&#8217;ll grow up without standards, and think everything they toss off gets the same wonderful reaction. (&#8220;A broken crayon with some string glued on the end? Why, it&#8217;s the best birthday present ever, Hon. And tell your husband I said hello.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>James Lileks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/804\/story\/385346.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Romzak triglit? For me? I love it!&#8221;, <em>Star Tribune<\/em><\/a>, 2006-04-21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;] quite possibly the ugliest thing your kid has ever made, and this presents you with one of those parenting dilemmas: What do you say when your child presents you with a handmade gift, and it looks like something a clown threw up after washing down a box of crayons with a quart of Ripple? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[102,374,375],"class_list":["post-70015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-art","tag-children","tag-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-idh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71845,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70015\/revisions\/71845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}