Rules of parenting.

When the toddler is quiet, be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Baby lotion will remove almost everything from most surfaces, including biro from toddler faces. (See rule 1.)

Your 12 year old daughter might not think she can get sunburnt in April, but she can if her brother puts the sun lotion on her back instead of you.

[picture not included, she really wouldn’t be happy with that!]

When speaking to your utterly precise, pedantic 8 year old, don’t be surprised if you get exactly what you ask for. So if you wanted the bread for the birds to go somewhere other than on the front path, you needed to specify a location more clearly than just “outside”.

You’re the parent. It’s your fault.


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Comments

9 responses to “Rules of parenting.”

  1. Fantastic, and so very very true. Bother, didn’t know about baby lotion. Will get some immediately 🙂

    1. Probably ought to have done a before and an after pic, was surprised at how effective the baby lotion was!

  2. LOL, thanks for the heads-up.

    1. We live to serve 🙂

  3. Sunburn? Not a chance of that round here in April this year 🙁

  4. Possession is nine tenths of the toddler.
    A mother’s place is in the wrong.
    It will probably all look better after everyone has eaten something (not someone).

  5. LOL.
    I’m beginning to learn that it’s all my fault. Everything. In the world. Also, ‘it’s not fair’!

  6. Can totally relate to Rule 1. Everything was far TOO quiet the other day so dashed off to see what toddler was up to, and was pleasantly surprised to find him in his room “reading” quietly to himself 😀
    Will definitely remember the baby lotion though!!

  7. Ahh yes, the use common sense don’t come into it. xx

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