I head upstairs, frustrated, calling for my son. I find him playing with some older boys in one of the upper floors of the house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s getting late,\u201d I tell him, annoyed. \u201cIt\u2019s almost 7:30.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is very little and just wants to keep playing for a while longer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I tell him no. \u201cI have things I need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the older kids scoffs at me \u201cOh, you have things to do\u2026\u201d and I tell him to shut the fuck up, immediately regretting talking that harshly in front of my young son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He pleads a little bit more, promising he will clean up after if I let him play longer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c<\/span>I always clean up for you,\u201d I remind him. \u201cYou never pick things up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is very sad, eye red with tears and his light hair is sticking out like fluff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I relent and hug him, saying gently \u201cIt\u2019s okay, you can keep playing. And don\u2019t worry about cleaning up. I take care of things for you. Just have fun with your friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wake, long before sunrise, too worried about my son to go back to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I head upstairs, frustrated, calling for my son. I find him playing with some older boys in one of the upper floors of the house. \u201cIt\u2019s getting late,\u201d I tell him, annoyed. \u201cIt\u2019s almost 7:30.\u201d He is very little and just wants to keep playing for a while longer. I tell him no. \u201cI have things I need to do.\u201d One of\u2026 Continue reading a good dad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,681,945,231],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-children","tag-house","tag-kids","tag-son","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}