{"id":622,"date":"2003-07-12T02:57:28","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T21:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/622"},"modified":"2003-07-12T02:57:28","modified_gmt":"2003-07-11T21:57:28","slug":"on-a-lighter-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/622","title":{"rendered":"On a lighter note"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across the “Imponderables” site a few days ago. I enjoyed the books, but haven’t had time to read through the site. I did notice a question – “Why do women tend to drop hints rather than ask questions or for favors directly?”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, tell you what. My daugher is three years old and she does this already. “Boy, I sure like jellybeans.” “Noggin is a good TV channel, you know? I sure do like to watch Noggin.” “I loooooooove going to Grandma’s house.” “Bubbles are fun to play with.” “I wonder if there are any bugs outside.”<\/p>\n

All are pretty easy to translate except maybe for the last – we have had a horrible mosquito problem and told her she can’t play outside because there are too many bugs.<\/p>\n

I’m sure hub and I do plenty of hinting around to get what we want. Who doesn’t, really? Otherwise it would seem that you’re too demanding. By casting subtle hints, it puts another person in the position of “freely” offering something. But kids aren’t worried about being demanding. Obviously. I think it boils down to aping parents’ behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran across the “Imponderables” site a few days ago. I enjoyed the books, but haven’t had time to read through the site. I did notice a question – “Why do women tend to drop hints rather than ask questions or for favors directly?”. Well, tell you what. My daugher is three years old and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}