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5 More Truisms About Parenting

Some time ago I had posted my 5 truisms on parenting (with additional contributions from friends), and I thought I'd move on to another 5 - hence 5 more truisms!  Here goes:
  1. I consider myself lucky if I get even 1/2 the things on my shopping list if I have Liam in tow.  (I, at least have reached the stage where I don't forget my groceries, credit card, receipt, etc.).
  2. The mess in the house is directly proportional to the amount of fun the kids have playing.
  3. Just when you think you have your child well-trained, she shows you who is boss by getting sick, being cranky, refusing to nap, waking up in the night. Take your pick.
  4. Nobody knows how to push your buttons and make you lose your mind like your kids.  How do they do that?
  5. Life with children is filled with drama. 
Feel free to add your own, maybe some truisms of parenting girls? Or boys?
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Tira said…
re No4-because you share genes!
8 June 2010 at 09:41
Austin Trini said…
Ha, ha! I believe you are right! That is funny!
8 June 2010 at 20:21
Savi said…
I think it's also because they observe you so closely (after all, you are the centre of their universe when they're small) that they come to know know you and your quirks even better than you know yourself. And, unlike friends and colleagues, they have no inhibitions about using or sharing that knowledge!
16 June 2010 at 06:45
Austin Trini said…
Savi, you said it! Talk about having no compunctions about pushing my buttons! It is amazing what they absorb....scary too.
17 June 2010 at 15:31
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