(FYI: The other 10% of my time is spent contemplating very deep questions such as "chocolate or vanilla?", "chocolate syrup or caramel?", and "Do I want a croissant with my coffee this morning?".)
I have often joked with my mom that the people at the hospital forgot to give me the manual that goes with my kids. Seriously, dishwashers come with users manual. Why don't kids? They are far more complicated than dishwashers. Here is the conclusion to which I have come: Raising kids is an art, not a science. Therefore, there is no manual. But if there were a manual, it would need to include chapters such as:
- Don't Give Sick Kids Milk (Unless You Like Cleaning up Curdled Milk at Midnight)
- How To Crawl Under a Rock When They Embarrass You (And it will happen)
- Multi-Tasking (Or the Fine Art of Making Dinner, Playing the Dot Game and Showering At the Same Time)
- Understanding Gibberish
- Tantrums 101 (Or What to do When Your Kid has Thrown Himself on the Floor of Whatever Store You Happen to be in Because You Said the Two Letter Word)
- Forget 4 Letter Words, The 2 Letter One is Worse
- Sibling Rivalry (Or He Breathed on Me)
- Traveling With Children (Why No One Does It)
LOL! I really need that chapter on tantrums - like NOW! My soon-to-be 3 y/o is really "asserting" himself lately. I'd totally buy that book. In fact, I'd buy stock in it, too. But ya know, if kids did come with a manual - the people who really need one, probably wouldn't read it anyway.
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