{"id":15802,"date":"2012-09-01T04:39:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T11:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15802"},"modified":"2012-09-01T04:39:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T11:39:52","slug":"dad-wears-a-skirt-so-his-son-will-feel-strong-enough-to-do-so-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15802","title":{"rendered":"Dad Wears a Skirt So His Son Will Feel Strong Enough To Do So As Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dad and son wearing red skirts\" src=\"http:\/\/l2.yimg.com\/bt\/api\/res\/1.2\/g_jsPU_nU7MNWekzRXGaEw--\/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en-US\/blogs\/partner\/470_2489748.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"215\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image originally published in Emma Magazine.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/shine.yahoo.com\/parenting\/dad-protects-son-bullies-wearing-skirt-guess-works-153600107.html\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a> by Piper Weiss on Yahoo and it is heartwarming and inspiring:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Nils] Pickert never minded that his son liked dressing in little girl&#8217;s clothes, but when his family moved from West Berlin to a small southern town in Germany, he learned that other people did. In fact, it became a &#8220;town wide issue,&#8221; according to Pickert, whose essay was translated by\u00a0Tumblr user\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/steegeschnoeber.tumblr.com\/post\/30238715638\/oneandonlygabriel-i-really-really-wish-you\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">steegeschnoeber<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A new school didn&#8217;t make life any easier for his young son. Shortly after his first day, he stopped reveling in his own tastes and Pickert worried about the damage it could wreak on his self-confidence.\u00a0&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to talk my son into not wearing dresses and skirts,&#8221; Pickert explained. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t make friends doing that in Berlin\u2026 so after a lot of contemplation I had only one option left: To broaden my shoulders for my little buddy and dress in a skirt myself.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really think that speaks for itself. You should go read <a href=\"http:\/\/shine.yahoo.com\/parenting\/dad-protects-son-bullies-wearing-skirt-guess-works-153600107.html\" target=\"_blank\">the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this story by Piper Weiss on Yahoo and it is heartwarming and inspiring: [Nils] Pickert never minded that his son liked dressing in little girl&#8217;s clothes, but when his family moved from West Berlin to a small southern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-and-the-body","category-men-and-masculinity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15805,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802\/revisions\/15805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}