{"id":3416,"date":"2016-07-07T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2016-07-07T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:36:33","slug":"princesses-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3416","title":{"rendered":"No More Princesses on the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day recently, the kids and I went out to the beach in the early part of the afternoon, and the kids immediately ran out into the ocean. When they came in later, one at a time, I offered each of them a towel. All three promptly and soundly rejected my offer. You would have thought I had proposed rounds of extensive, unnecessary, experimental dental surgery the way they grimaced and backed away at even the suggestion of the towel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=3417\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3417\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0407-1024x755.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0407\" width=\"640\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0407-1024x755.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0407-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0407-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>You see, I had offered them the princess towel, a throwback from Baby-Girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s preschool days.<\/p>\n<p>But I guess when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a boy about to enter middle school or a boy just trying to see your way clear to the other side of middle school, you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t drape your ocean-drenched self with a princess towel, even one turned inside out (my suggested accommodation), and even with no one you know other than blood-kin in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Not gonna talk about it and not gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Baby-Girl, who came in last and who gave me the death look when I suggested it to her. I get the sense that a rising fourth grade girl almost can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t imagine a more embarrassing scenario than being seen with a princess towel, even if and especially if the towel is technically hers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=3418\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/100_1231-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"100_1231\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/100_1231-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/100_1231-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/100_1231-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=3420\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3420\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/100_1498-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"100_1498\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/100_1498-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/100_1498-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>My, how things have changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day recently, the kids and I went out to the beach in the early part of the afternoon, and the kids immediately ran out into the ocean. When they came in later, one at a time, I offered each of them a towel. All three promptly and soundly rejected my offer. You would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[421,105,100,2076,2075],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-island-kids","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-kids-raised-on-an-island","tag-princess-beach-towels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}