1. Curiosity: Go ahead and see what you can whip up. Drift into a hormone-induced fog thinking how great it would be to have a baby with all the combined charm of you and your sweetie. Realistically, that baby is just as likely to exercise its genetic options and come up with a nice mix of Cousin Fred and and Aunt Myrtle’s worst traits.
2. Karma. You have to “pay for your raising.” I can’t tell you how many times my mom wished “fifteen kids who act just like you” on me. What a horrible thing to curse a kid with! The woman had no conscience! Nothing makes you forgive your parents’ horrendous mistakes like screwing up your own kids.
3. Kids keep you humble. Nobody knows more about raising kids than folks who’ve never had one. There is no surer way to ensure your kid will humiliate you on a regular basis than to criticize somebody else’s kid. Never, never, never say, “my kid wouldn’t do that.” They are probably doing it right then on the six o’clock news.
4. Budgeting is no problem once you have kids. Except for rent, groceries, and utilities, and minimal clothes for yourself, everything goes for kid expenses. It will be many years before you have to bother yourself about fancy cars, entertainment, vacation, savings, or investments.
5. Educational benefits. I never realized how little I knew until my first night home with a new baby. Nothing I did worked. Though child care looked simple enough, nothing I’d ever done prepared me for the challenge. As they grew older, my incompetence grew exponentially. By the time they were teenagers, I barely had enough functioning brain cells to tie my shoes. Thank God, a few years after they left home, I seemed to be functioning moderately well. It’s amazing how children in the home makes parental IQs plummet.
6. Hopefully, they get grown and give you beautiful, well-behaved grandchildren, asking you to babysit only on rare occasions.
On the six o’clock news. LOL Excellent!
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I actually heard something on the radio once before my son got home.
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Thanks.
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Reblogged this on itsgoodtobecrazysometimes and commented:
This on so many levels
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Ha on #2. I have one just like me and I am truly loving her to pieces. I know what to do to nurture her heart. That is something I didn’t get when I was a kid.
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That’s the good stuff, isn’t it!
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Ah…motherhood, there is no practicum to prepare you. You just have to dive in and grow as you go !! ❤️ Funny stuff, as usual.
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They worked me over. Thanks.
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You got me right from the first sentence 🙂 Nice one
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Ha Ha! You have hit the nail right on the head as usual Linda! I love the one about the kids keeping you humble. I have learned this lesson so well! 🙂
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Nothing like a big mouth kid to fix you right up.
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I love your irony in your points……. but at the same time see the gratitude and love shining through. Number made me laugh hard. I cannot wait to meet your mom!!!
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Thanks. She’s a gem.
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No single doubt about that, Linda 🙂
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I so get this, after 6 kids and years of poverty I now enjoy the delights of adult children….and 6 is?
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Now it’s finished!
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Now number 6 you see I have told my kids I am not a day care service, I take one gkid to and from school and that’s about all…..I have 8 beautiful gkids and they are kids, not always are they great which is good as that means they have personality….
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ahhh…children…i love them…especially when i can leave them in the store/park/public place…the best kind
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Ha!
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hey beautiful…
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