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10 Things I Didn’t Know About Parenting But Have Been Forced To Find Out
Top ten lists – everybody loves them. Everybody writes them. Someone else has probably already written this one. But here, nonetheless, is my modest contribution to the genre:
10 Things I Didn’t Know About Parenting But Have Been Forced To Find Out
- Sleep deprivation as a concept and sleep deprivation as an experience are two completely different things.
- Projectile poop as a concept and projectile poop as an experience are also two completely different things.
- It is possible to sleep when the baby sleeps. All you need is a cook, a maid, and a catheter.
- To a toddler, “no” isn’t so much a word as a mantra.
- To a preschooler, “no” isn’t so much a rebuke as a call to arms.
- What goes up (the back of the sofa) must come down (with a very loud thunk).
- What goes in (one end) must come out (the other) — and some of it doesn’t change a whole lot in between.
- Anyone who thinks that children have limited attention spans has never read “Goodnight Moon” 57 times in a row.
- Never buy refurbished computer equipment – you really don’t know what’s hiding in that keyboard.
- Perfect parenting is not required to raise perfectly awesome children.
What have your kids taught you?
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Oh my goodness — every single word is SO TRUE!!! Just love your list!
Thanks Julie, glad you enjoyed it!
Hee hee hee…SO true, and SO funny! Loved this post.
Thanks Lynn
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That no matter how annoying it is when they keep singing “something something something with a banjo on my knee”, you probably shouldn’t yell “for god’s sake, I COME FROM ALABAMA” in the middle of the library.
That was YOU?!?!?
OMG – I couldn’t stop laughing! I haven’t experienced all of them yet as DD is just 1, but 1, 2, 3, and 4 are so true. Number 8 is the one that got me – YES! For two weeks straight that was the only book I could read to DD before bed – I couldn’t even pick up another book without a meltdown
So much yet to experience – and my oldest is only 3! It’s one heck of a ride, especially when they start walking
. Enjoy!
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I love your blog!
Thanks Katja! That’s sweet. I am sooo behind on my blog reading (and writing!) it’s not funny, but I’ll try and put a list together!
Sasha I just realized that I have had an outdated url in my reader for ages now. GAH. Finally I am up to date. Your list is oh so true.
Thanks Chantal! And the URL is my bad – I’m the one who keeps moving my blog around
. But I think that the “Rambling Notebook” is here to stay 