{"id":545,"date":"2009-03-28T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T04:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papabachwani.wordpress.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2009-03-28T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T04:36:50","slug":"parenting-the-real-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2009\/03\/parenting-the-real-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting: The Real Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must share with you another gem from one of my favourite dad blogs &#8211; MetroDad &#8211; this time on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/metrodad.typepad.com\/index\/2009\/03\/all-your-parenting-questions-answered.html\" target=\"_blank\">All Your Parenting Questions Answered!<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the background in MD&#8217;s own words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyway, whenever someone writes me for parenting advice, I usually do take the time to answer them seriously&#8230; I figure that anyone who takes time out of their day to write me a serious e-mail about parenting deserves a serious answer. However, most of the time, these are the replies that I really want to send&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By his own admission, MD has no background in pediatrics or child psychology.\u00a0 But, like any good parent, he has also confessed to have &#8220;read every parenting and baby book ever written in English when he found out he was going to be a father&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The writeup handles most of the tough questions you&#8217;d like answers to, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When is a child too old to breast feed?<\/li>\n<li>My child is a fussy eater. What should I do?<\/li>\n<li>Is it ok to like one of your children more than the other?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and, the best of all &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do you know if you are ready to become a parent?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are a parent or are planning to be one someday, this one is a <a href=\"http:\/\/metrodad.typepad.com\/index\/2009\/03\/all-your-parenting-questions-answered.html\" target=\"_blank\">must-read<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must share with you another gem from one of my favourite dad blogs &#8211; MetroDad &#8211; this time on &#8220;All Your Parenting Questions Answered!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenthood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}