{"id":8033,"date":"2013-10-31T13:33:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T20:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=8033"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:31:32","slug":"overheard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2013\/10\/31\/overheard\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheard Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As they waited to retrieve their children from school at day&#8217;s end, a few parents were talking about their children\u2019s Halloween costumes. One mother said her daughter didn\u2019t want to <em>just<\/em> wear the princess costume, because it was too plain. In her story, the daughter said, \u201cMommy, I want you to bedazzle it!\u201d The woman said, \u201cHoney, I don\u2019t know what you mean by that. What does <em>bedazzle<\/em> mean?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The mother laughed and continued, \u201cThen she said Oh Mommy, put some bling-bling on it, and sparkles, and make it shine!&#8221; The adults chuckled and the mother added, &#8220;Heh, little whore!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The child to whom she referred was her <em>kindergartner<\/em>. There were preschoolers present with the parents. And I thought&#8230; who taught this little girl about &#8220;bling-bling&#8221; and dazzle? Who is the gatekeeper for exposure to these ideas? And why would any parent refer to her child this way, even in jest? I felt sad for the little girl who, by wanting what she&#8217;d been taught to want, was judged for it &#8212; by her own mother, no less. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they waited to retrieve their children from school at day&#8217;s end, a few parents were talking about their children\u2019s Halloween costumes. One mother said her daughter didn\u2019t want to just wear the princess costume, because it was too plain. In her story, the daughter said, \u201cMommy, I want you to bedazzle it!\u201d The woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-motherhood"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}