My father-in-law called me a \u201cfailing wife\u201d because my husband and I split household chores. Then my daughter challenged him.<\/p>\n
At a family BBQ, I was helping Lily prepare her burger when he shook his empty glass at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cRefill it\u2014or is that a man\u2019s job too?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lily stood up. \u201cGrandpa, you have legs. Why don\u2019t you get it yourself? Mom is helping me.\u201d<\/p>\n
He accused her of disrespect and blamed my parenting. I took her hand, and we left.<\/p>\n
In the car, she whispered, \u201cMom, was I rude?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were standing up for me,\u201d I told her.<\/p>\n
Later, my husband said she should apologize \u201cto keep the peace.\u201d But I couldn\u2019t ignore the disrespect she had witnessed.<\/p>\n
I want my daughter to speak with kindness\u2014and know that her voice matters, even when someone older doesn\u2019t like what she says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My father-in-law called me a \u201cfailing wife\u201d because my husband and I split household chores. Then my daughter challenged him. At a family BBQ, I was helping Lily prepare her burger when he shook his empty glass at me. \u201cRefill it\u2014or is that a man\u2019s job too?\u201d Lily stood up. \u201cGrandpa, you have legs. Why …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25285,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25283\/revisions\/25285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}