{"id":35207,"date":"2026-09-28T22:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35207"},"modified":"2026-09-28T22:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:17:25","slug":"my-husband-broke-my-laptop-then-our-8-year-old-daughter-shocked-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35207","title":{"rendered":"MY HUSBAND BROKE MY LAPTOP\u2014THEN OUR 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER SHOCKED HIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>MY HUSBAND DESTROYED MY LAPTOP AND SAID, \u201cWOMEN AREN\u2019T SUPPOSED TO BE SMART.\u201d THEN MY 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER SILENCED HIM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I had returned to graduate school to finish my biology dissertation, but Grant hated every minute of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">One morning, just before my deadline, he \u201caccidentally\u201d dropped my laptop down the stairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">My weekend revisions were gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then he looked at me and smirked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cWomen aren\u2019t supposed to be smart. Go make me breakfast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I sat on the stairs in tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then Ellie came downstairs holding her school project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cMommy, you need to see this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">She had made a poster titled:<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>\u201cWHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BE LIKE MY MOM.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Underneath, she wrote:<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>\u201cDON\u2019T LISTEN. KEEP TRYING.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then she walked into the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cDaddy needs to see it too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Grant\u2019s smile disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>And for the first time, I realized Ellie had heard everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MY HUSBAND DESTROYED MY LAPTOP AND SAID, \u201cWOMEN AREN\u2019T SUPPOSED TO BE SMART.\u201d THEN MY 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER SILENCED HIM. I had returned to graduate school to finish my biology dissertation, but Grant hated every minute of it. One morning, just before my deadline, he \u201caccidentally\u201d dropped my laptop down the stairs. My weekend revisions were&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35207\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;MY HUSBAND BROKE MY LAPTOP\u2014THEN OUR 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER SHOCKED HIM&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35209,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35207\/revisions\/35209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}