{"id":175,"date":"2021-06-04T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.parentinggroup.ca\/?p=175"},"modified":"2021-06-04T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T10:58:31","slug":"looking-in-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/2021\/06\/04\/looking-in-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking in the Mirror."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"yiv8496439201yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622650177643\">People need to take a good look in the mirror before pointing a finger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"yiv8496439201yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622650219481\">It was Caitlyn&#8217;s Dad&#8217;s birthday and in the morning I had mentioned it to Caitlyn. During class, Caitlyn wrote me a note because she wanted to, and then she wrote one for her Dad because it was his birthday. I was busy and Caitlyn was on line schooling. In the afternoon I just needed to get out and I wanted to go and check out a park\u00a0 and a splash pad that I know wasn&#8217;t there a few years ago among other things. I\u2019ve been on Google maps lately&#8230;lol&#8230;Caitlyn surprisingly didn&#8217;t want to go but I explained to her that I needed to get out and I promised her that she would have fun, and she did. The area surprised me, a lot of work was done to it. Came home after 5pm, got Caitlyn settled, let the bird out, getting and having our dinner, not thinking about her dad,\u00a0not my responsibility.\u00a0 I have a lot of other things to worry about and Caitlyn is only 5. No one calls me on my birthday, Mother&#8217;s day; Caitlyn doesn&#8217;t remember unless I tell her. I make my own birthday cake, \ud83d\ude0a but Caitlyn blows out my candles \ud83d\ude01 . I in the back of my mind am thinking her dad will call when he is done work and they can talk. I&#8217;ve never not given the phone to her. He called around 6:30 and when I picked up he just started yelling and screaming at me because Caitlyn hadn&#8217;t called him to wish him a happy birthday. I\u00a0 tried to remind him that he is not my concern and that she is only 5. He tried to blame me and I put it back on him. He knows my illness and that I don&#8217;t have enough strength to cut watermelon for her and since April I&#8217;ve told him every time that he comes to bring her a watermelon and cut it for her. He has yet to bring her a watermelon and every time he comes he says he forgot and I didn&#8217;t remind him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"yiv8496439201yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622650161604\">Am I missing something here?<br>Anyway, he didn&#8217;t like that I brought up the watermelon and hung up without talking to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"yiv8496439201yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622650789695\">Talk about stirring the pot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People need to take a good look in the mirror before pointing a finger.&nbsp; It was Caitlyn&#8217;s Dad&#8217;s birthday and in the morning I had mentioned it to Caitlyn. During class, Caitlyn wrote me a note because she wanted to, and then she wrote one for her Dad because it was his birthday. I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/2021\/06\/04\/looking-in-the-mirror\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking in the Mirror.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stirring-the-pot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}