Parenting Tips

These are lessons learned in one real home by real people:

1. How do you tell that the water in the bathtub is too hot?

2. What do you do when you have fed food that's too hot for your toddler?

3. How would you know if the physical play you had is too violent for your toddler?

4. What do you do when your plasma TV goes blank on you and you have done all the checks as recommended by the instructions manual?

5. What do you do when your kids pile a big heap of toys, big and small, together to create a landfill in the middle of your living room, call it the 'dump' and refuse to keep their toys?

6. When do you know that your 4 y.o kid has outgrown the song "Rain, rain goes away"?

Answers:

1. When your kid gets out looking kind of like a well cooked lobster/prawn/crab.

2. You asked him to open his mouth and you start blowing into it.

3. When he pukes his milk and what-he-had-for-dinner all over your face.

4. You check the slot for the insertion of SD card and remove the 5-cent coin lodged in there.

5. You praise them for finally giving up on their toys and tell them that whatever is left there will be given to the school.

6. When he retorts, "Why do you ask me to sing that song ... rain has no ears, no mouth, no nothing."