{"id":4341,"date":"2025-06-01T22:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T22:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2025-06-01T22:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T22:54:56","slug":"i-came-home-to-find-my-kids-sleeping-in-the-hallway-and-what-my-husband-had-done-while-i-was-away-left-me-fuming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=4341","title":{"rendered":"I Came Home to Find My Kids Sleeping in the Hallway\u2014and What My Husband Had Done While I Was Away Left Me Fuming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"325\">After a weeklong work trip, I came home excited to see my kids\u2014and expecting my husband Mark to be wiped out. Instead, I found our sons asleep on the hallway floor, dirty and tangled in blankets, while the house looked like a junk food tornado hit it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"327\" data-end=\"488\">Mark? He was in the boys\u2019 room\u2014now a full-blown gaming cave\u2014headphones on, lost in his video game. When I confronted him, he shrugged. \u201cThey thought it was fun!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"702\">I was furious. The next morning, I treated him the way he\u2019d acted: like a child. I made a chore chart, cut his screen time, served him kiddie meals, and gave him timeouts. He whined, sulked, even threw a tantrum.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"727\">Then his mom showed up.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"729\" data-end=\"812\">She scolded him like he was ten. He finally apologized. \u201cI get it. I\u2019ll do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"868\">I smiled. \u201cGood. The kids need a dad\u2014not another kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"870\" data-end=\"933\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">And just in case he forgot? The timeout corner was still ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After a weeklong work trip, I came home excited to see my kids\u2014and expecting my husband Mark to be wiped out. Instead, I found our sons asleep on the hallway floor, dirty and tangled in blankets, while the house looked like a junk food tornado hit it. Mark? He was in the boys\u2019 room\u2014now &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4341","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\/4341","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=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4343,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions\/4343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}