{"id":1586,"date":"2015-11-03T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T04:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2015-11-03T22:28:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T04:28:32","slug":"mommies-that-eat-daddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/mommies-that-eat-daddies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommies That Eat Daddies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1708\" src=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0865-e1446603179661-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0865\" width=\"163\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0865-e1446603179661-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0865-e1446603179661-900x1200.jpg 900w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0865-e1446603179661.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/>A few days ago\u00a0I had the opportunity to tell my daughter about a praying mantis (<a href=\"http:\/\/mdc.mo.gov\/discover-nature\/field-guide\/praying-mantis-0\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Mantis<\/a>) that was on the side of our car. She thought it was so cool that it was just hanging there and it looked a lot like a stick. What she found even more interesting is when I told her what mommy praying mantises do when they have babies with daddy praying mantises.<\/p>\n<p>It was funny watching her reaction when she learned\u00a0that the mommy praying mantis eats the daddy praying mantis after they have a baby. I know this is actually after they mate, but I figure explaining it to her would be easier if I said after they have a baby.\u00a0I&#8217;m sure that this will lead to more thought provoking\u00a0discussions as she gets older and she wants to learn about babies and where babies come from. It&#8217;s going to be even more interesting on\u00a0how I am going\u00a0to explain all this baby stuff to her and Alex. Truthfully, I&#8217;d much rather just be honest and give her the details, but I&#8217;m not exactly sure what\u00a0is an appropriate for these types of discussions. I know at five, she&#8217;s not ready for it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1717\" src=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mantis-640x439.jpg\" alt=\"mantis\" width=\"367\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mantis-640x439.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mantis.jpg 888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/>Instead we talk about things that actually matter, such as who is better Elsa or Anna? Miles or Diego? I attempt to enlighten her with cartoons from my past like Batman The Animated Series and Gargoyles. She&#8217;s just stuck \u00a0on her Crafty Carol videos and these Disney Junior and Nick Jr. cartoons. I&#8217;ve gotten her into Ducktales but it&#8217;s not something she seemed particularly interested in for the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>So what does this all mean? I don&#8217;t know, talk to your kids, show them crazy, freaky bugs, and tell them how in some bug cultures mommy eats daddy for breakfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago\u00a0I had the opportunity to tell my daughter about a praying mantis (Chinese Mantis) that was on the side of our car. She thought it was so cool that it was just hanging there and it looked a lot like a stick. What she found even more interesting is when I told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Mommies That Eat Daddies #dadbloggers http:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-pA","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,276],"tags":[12,309,147,310,311],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-family","tag-blog-2","tag-bugs","tag-family","tag-praying-mantis","tag-talking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0865-e1446603179661.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-pA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}