2. Conversely, on school mornings or when they have to get up by a certain time, your kids are sure to be groggy and crabby as you drag them out of their beds.
3. Your child rarely gets sick, but as soon as you have an important meeting or event, she’s down for the count.
4. Though he’s been constipated for days, your baby has an outfit-destroying blow-out as soon as you’re in public.
5. Similarly, your preschooler, who swore up and down she absolutely did not have to go to the bathroom before you left the house, declares that she’s going to wet her pants while you’re in the middle of checking out at the store.
6. Even though you look to make sure the kids are busy before you make that important phone call, they track you down like mosquitoes to warm blood and demand your immediate attention just as you’ve finished saying, “hello.”
7. The toy that your child hasn’t so much as glanced at in months is suddenly being mourned as his “favorite” the day after you pitch it.
8. Everyone is busy and content; however, as soon as you close the bathroom door, they’re frantically pounding, in dire need of your assistance.
9. The new toy you painstakingly picked out for your daughter’s first Christmas is infinitely less interesting than the box in which it was packaged.
10. The tissues you carefully and pointedly placed in your son’s pocket to combat his runny nose will invariably be replaced by a much faster and handier alternative — his sleeve.
Got any to add? We’d love to hear ‘em!
The kids love [insert food here], when you can’t make it for them, but when you offer it to them as their only option for lunch, they “don’t like it.”
Children don’t like any toy in their room as much as the one their sibling or friend is playing with!
Oh so true, Kathy! These are great.