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FOR ALL PARENTS AND POTENTIAL PARENTS!!!!

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  • FOR ALL PARENTS AND POTENTIAL PARENTS!!!!

    For those who already have children past this age, this is hilarious.
    For those who have children this age, this is not funny.
    For those who have children nearing this age, this is a warning.

    For those who have not yet had children, this is birth control.

    The following came from an anonymous mother in Austin, Texas.......


    Things I've learned from my children (honest no kidding):


    1. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft.house, 4
    inches deep.

    2. If you spray hairspray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller
    blades, they can ignite.

    3. A 3-year old's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.

    4. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong
    enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing Batman underwear and a
    Superman cape. If tied to a paint can, however, it is strong enough to
    spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.

    5. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on.
    When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few
    times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

    6. The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a
    ceiling fan.

    7. When you hear the toilet flush and the words "uh oh," it's already too
    late.

    8. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.

    9. A six-year old can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year
    old man says they can only do it in the movies.

    10. Certain LEGOs will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old.

    11. Playdough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.

    12. Superglue is forever.

    13. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't
    walk on water.

    14. Pool filters do not like Jell-O.

    15. VCR's do not eject Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwiches even though TV
    commercials show they do.

    16. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.

    17. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.

    18. You probably do not want to know what that smell is.

    19. Always look in the oven before you turn it on. Plastic toys do not like
    ovens.

    20. The fire department in Austin, TX has a 5-minute response time to my
    house.

    21. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.

    22. It will, however, make cats dizzy.

    23. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

    24. The mind of a 6-year old is wonderful. First grade...
    True story: One day the first grade teacher was reading the
    story of the Three Little Pigs to her class. She came to the part of the
    story where the first pig was trying to accumulate the building materials for
    his home.



    She read,"...And so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow

    full of straw and said, 'Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that
    straw to build my house?'" The teacher paused then asked the class,
    "And what do you think that man said?"

    One little boy raised his hand and said, "I think he said... 'Holy
    Sh*t, a talking pig!'"


    The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.
    ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
    ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

  • #2

    That's too much.
    Thank goodness for little girls.
    (though today I left my baby alone for a few minutes and came back to find she'd eaten half a paper birthday card).
    Enabler of DW and 5 kids
    Let's go Mets!

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    • #3
      Thanks for the laugh. I am keeping my fingers crossed. I may have four boys but they haven't done anything close to the list above ... that I know of!

      Robin

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      • #4
        Well-

        Hmmmm-

        ummmm-

        Sooooo-

        Have fun?

        Jenn

        and maybe that adoption application will be filed in my "silly things I've thought about doing" file, next to the information on skydiving and how to start my own home based business...

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        • #5
          for parents...

          It really is a funny text!!! and btw Jenn...that is a fairly good description of parenting....

          Here's a story that my mom loves to repeat about what I did when I was a girl. I was 4 and my brother was almost one...I thought I was too old for naps...but my mom disagreed So, she put me down for a nap in the room that I shared with my baby brother...AND...I got into the used diaper container and opened up the poopy (ugh!) diapers and SMEARED THEM ON THE WALL! I then proceeded to cake the wall in talcom powder. By the time my mom came into the room...well...it had all hardened into a disgusting mess..They actually had to hire someone to come in and fix the walls because the poop had sort of...cemented itself to the wall.....The moral of this story? Poop and talcom powder are better than drywall!



          I'm sure that none of you can imagine me 8) doing anything like that...but...it's a true story...

          Any others???

          Kris
          ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
          ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

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          • #6
            That is so funny. Thank goodness I didn't have a ceiling fan when the girls were small. What one of them didn't think of the other one would.
            Luanne
            Luanne
            wife, mother, nurse practitioner

            "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." (John, Viscount Morely, On Compromise, 1874)

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            • #7
              According to my mother, this is EXACTLY how my children are going to turn out when I have them. What does she know that I don't?

              I forwarded it to my cousin, whose kids are already turning out that way...

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              • #8
                This one doesn't involve cleaning up any messes, but it does fall under the category of "how on earth did you even think of that?"

                My cousin's wife was working one Saturday (she's a nurse), so he took his two little girls, an infant and a 4-year-old, with him to the local hardware store. He had them both in the cart, but by the time they got to the checkout counter he was struggling a bit to keep both kids patient.

                Surveying this scene, the cashier, a grandmotherly type lady, says to the 4-year-old "And where's your mommy, honey?" (Offensive question for several reasons, but whatever.) Without pause, the 4-year-old looks sadly at the floor and says solmenly, "In heaven." 8O 8O 8O

                My cousin was dumbfounded and by the time he recovered his powers of speech the cashier already had tears of sympathy welling up in her eyes. At that point he figured it was best to just take his receipt and head swiftly for the parking lot, saving the lecture on lying for the car ride home.
                Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
                Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.

                “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
                Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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                • #9
                  in heaven

                  That's so funny.....A friend of mine who has 4 children ages 4-13 recently got a congratulatory call from her 10 year old's teacher. Apparently, she went around telling all of her teachers and friends that her mom was having a baby because she wanted the attention

                  Kids can be so funny!!!

                  Kris
                  ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
                  ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

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                  • #10
                    8) 8) 8)
                    That just cracks me up on so many levels.
                    Thanks, I needed a smile today.
                    (kind of reminds me of "snappy answers to stupid questions" from MAD magazine)
                    Enabler of DW and 5 kids
                    Let's go Mets!

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                    • #11
                      Those are some funny stories!
                      I suppose when I was little, I did some things, but the ones that I remember were complete accidents, that I caused. My brother was about 3 and we were putting a rural water line to our house and it went through our yard. We had hundreds of rocks in the yard from the ditch. I was trying to be helpful and move the wheelbarrow closer so we didn't have to walk so far to drop the rocks. At that very time my little brother put a rock on the side and it shifted the balance....I dumped the whole load of rocks on him. He refused to stand on his legs for nearly 4 hours! That was a rough ER visit, especially for me and he didn't even have anything broken!
                      I won't even tell you about the time I clocked him in the forehead with my new wooden baseball bat!

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                      • #12
                        We went to an event for kids age 0-3 this weekend. One of the entertainment acts was a sing-a-long. The woman leading it did a couple rounds of "Old McDonald" and would point to different kids to choose an animal. So, we had a cow, monkey, etc. Then, she pointed a little boy as she sang "and on that farm he had a...." and the little boy said "...penis".
                        Needless to say, all the parents were howling and the mother of this little boy was MORTIFIED. I wonder what sound he thought a penis would make?!?

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                        • #13
                          Definitely spraying sounds. "With a spray spray here and a spray spray there Here a spray..."

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                          • #14


                            Sally
                            Wife of an OB/Gyn, mom to three boys, middle school choir teacher.

                            "I don't know when Dad will be home."

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                            • #15
                              You all are too much. I defninitely needed the laughs.

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