{"id":47,"date":"2009-04-29T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T12:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2009\/04\/whos-the-boss.html"},"modified":"2009-04-29T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T12:04:42","slug":"whos-the-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2009\/04\/whos-the-boss.html","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s the boss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a family portrait my four year old, Zoe, drew the other day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width:350px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-449\" src=\"https:\/\/homeshuling.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/family1.jpg\" alt=\"at least she didn't make *me* bald\" width=\"350\" height=\"258\" \/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">at least she didn&#039;t make *me* bald<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s me on the left, her father in the middle, and her big sister on the right. Judging from the relative size of my husband&#8217;s head, I&#8217;m guessing she doesn&#8217;t buy into the idea that her father and I are equal partners in this whole parenting thing. \u00a0<br \/>\nThe tiny person floating in the top corner is Zoe. And no, she doesn&#8217;t think she&#8217;s God.\u00a0I had to cut her picture out from way down at our feet and paste it on top, since the whole thing was too big for our scanner. See?<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width:350px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-450\" src=\"https:\/\/homeshuling.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/family2.jpg\" alt=\"It sort of looks like I'm kicking her in the head\" width=\"350\" height=\"261\" \/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">It sort of looks like I&#039;m kicking her in the head<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>She&#8217;s the one on the left, just slightly smaller than my foot.<br \/>\nShe sure doesn&#8217;t <em>act<\/em> like she thinks she&#8217;s the size of a vole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a family portrait my four year old, Zoe, drew the other day. at least she didn&#039;t make *me* bald That&#8217;s me on the left, her father in the middle, and her big sister on the right. Judging from the relative size of my husband&#8217;s head, I&#8217;m guessing she doesn&#8217;t buy into the idea that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who&#039;s the boss? - Homeshuling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2009\/04\/whos-the-boss.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who&#039;s the boss? - Homeshuling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s a family portrait my four year old, Zoe, drew the other day. at least she didn&#039;t make *me* bald That&#8217;s me on the left, her father in the middle, and her big sister on the right. 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