{"id":377,"date":"2007-01-31T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T02:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=377"},"modified":"2007-01-31T19:40:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T02:40:18","slug":"zoes-own-mr-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Zoe’s own “Mr. Mom”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the movie “Mr. Mom”\u00c2\u00a0– the one where\u00c2\u00a0Michael Keaton plays a stay-at-home dad? \u00c2\u00a0I wound up watching it while comforting Zoe today, and I was amazed by how dated (and sexist) the storyline is.\u00c2\u00a0The movie, which came out in 1983, makes a huge deal out of the fact that the mom is the family’s primary income-earner and the fact that the dad grows to love taking care of the kids and doing traditional “mom” stuff. (Don’t even get me started on how the mom’s older male boss frequently comments on how “pretty” she looks at work.) I can’t imagine a movie with that premise being made today, nor can I imagine anyone these days batting an eye at a father who\u00c2\u00a0enjoys\u00c2\u00a0– and is good at – taking care of his kids.\u00c2\u00a0As I\u00c2\u00a0watched the movie, I couldn’t help but think of Q, who (as mentioned here before), is\u00c2\u00a0the real baby expert in our family. He’s been incredibly caring and hands-on with Zoe from the get-go – and I’m grateful that these days, doting fathers like Q are the rule – not the exception!<\/p>\n

-M<\/p>\n

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Remember the movie “Mr. Mom”\u00c2\u00a0– the one where\u00c2\u00a0Michael Keaton plays a stay-at-home dad? \u00c2\u00a0I wound up watching it while comforting Zoe today, and I was amazed by how dated (and sexist) the storyline is.\u00c2\u00a0The movie, which came out in 1983, makes a huge deal out of the fact that the mom is the family’s primary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-to-3-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}