The New Yorker recently posted a rather amusing article online: New Parenting Study Released. In the spirit of Ape manure, what makes you go "f...ing nuts" as a parent? I'm assuming we all want to climb walls now and then ;)
The link unfortunately doesn't work, but here's my Top 10 of what makes me go nuts as a parent:
1) As a mom of two primary school girls: lice alarm. We receive an email alert from school too often, and have experienced lice too often as well in the past year. Another one that I hate are pin-worms. Yuck.
2) Junk. I pass on tons of clothes and toys, but with three small kids, "stuff" accumulates. I'm a minimalist, and a fam of order. My kids, especially my eldest, horde "stuff", and, as most kids, are not fans of tidying up.
3) Mornings. Getting three kids ready for school is hassle, even though they wake up hours before we need to leave. I'm an early bird myself, but hate having to command my "army" (a very mutinous one) to get everything done. Why can't they just do things we do every single morning without my prompting...? Asks a mom of a boy aged 3.
4) My pillow. My son has the habit or coming over to my bed in the middle of the night. He only wants to sleep on my pillow, so I have taken a second one. But as the night progresses, I have to turn my pillow vertically, and eventually I have no space for it, because my son wants to cuddle on my side in his sleep. I want to reclaim my pillow back!
5) Costs of a babysitter. Berlin is cheap (eur 10 per hour), but going to the movies or for dinner when having to pay for a babysitter gets extortionately expensive. Wonders of take-aways and DVDs, but it's not the same as sitting out in the warm sunset with a chilled glass of white wine and tapas...
6) Luggage. Packing for 5. So. Much. Tedious. Work.
7) Weekend trips. A cheapy get-away a deux has become an extortionately expensive trip worth a monthly income. Thank heavens for mom-gets-away-and-meets-friends!
8) Runny noses. Somewhere around point 1, but improves with age.
9) Projectile vomiting. As above, radically improves ages 3 and up. Perhaps my most hysterical memory of being a mom, with three kids simultaneously ill when very small... No, don't imagine it.
10) My bellybutton. Formerly known as a bellybutton. RIP somewhere around pregnancy 2 or 3.
Great list of things to go bezerk about! I can share your thoughts on quite a few but thankfully some that I can't. No lice, worms, or double-vomiting and I've lived in developing countries with my bunch! It seems I'm the one who needs to send you a survival pack to Berlin! ;)
But, I do miss my bellybutton too! When one day I do get my tummy muscles back I'll have an excessively flat stomach since good old bellybutton's Fonecta for good, I'm afraid! :( r.i.p(ieces) And pillow fights... I didn't know toddlers do them while asleep! Some night's I give up and sleep on the couch... Two boys and one man in one bed and no room for my beauty sleep!
The link unfortunately doesn't work, but here's my Top 10 of what makes me go nuts as a parent:
ReplyDelete1) As a mom of two primary school girls: lice alarm. We receive an email alert from school too often, and have experienced lice too often as well in the past year. Another one that I hate are pin-worms. Yuck.
2) Junk. I pass on tons of clothes and toys, but with three small kids, "stuff" accumulates. I'm a minimalist, and a fam of order. My kids, especially my eldest, horde "stuff", and, as most kids, are not fans of tidying up.
3) Mornings. Getting three kids ready for school is hassle, even though they wake up hours before we need to leave. I'm an early bird myself, but hate having to command my "army" (a very mutinous one) to get everything done. Why can't they just do things we do every single morning without my prompting...? Asks a mom of a boy aged 3.
4) My pillow. My son has the habit or coming over to my bed in the middle of the night. He only wants to sleep on my pillow, so I have taken a second one. But as the night progresses, I have to turn my pillow vertically, and eventually I have no space for it, because my son wants to cuddle on my side in his sleep. I want to reclaim my pillow back!
5) Costs of a babysitter. Berlin is cheap (eur 10 per hour), but going to the movies or for dinner when having to pay for a babysitter gets extortionately expensive. Wonders of take-aways and DVDs, but it's not the same as sitting out in the warm sunset with a chilled glass of white wine and tapas...
6) Luggage. Packing for 5. So. Much. Tedious. Work.
7) Weekend trips. A cheapy get-away a deux has become an extortionately expensive trip worth a monthly income. Thank heavens for mom-gets-away-and-meets-friends!
8) Runny noses. Somewhere around point 1, but improves with age.
9) Projectile vomiting. As above, radically improves ages 3 and up. Perhaps my most hysterical memory of being a mom, with three kids simultaneously ill when very small... No, don't imagine it.
10) My bellybutton. Formerly known as a bellybutton. RIP somewhere around pregnancy 2 or 3.
Oh, sorry about the link! I'll try to fix it tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteGreat list of things to go bezerk about! I can share your thoughts on quite a few but thankfully some that I can't. No lice, worms, or double-vomiting and I've lived in developing countries with my bunch! It seems I'm the one who needs to send you a survival pack to Berlin! ;)
ReplyDeleteBut, I do miss my bellybutton too! When one day I do get my tummy muscles back I'll have an excessively flat stomach since good old bellybutton's Fonecta for good, I'm afraid! :( r.i.p(ieces)
And pillow fights... I didn't know toddlers do them while asleep! Some night's I give up and sleep on the couch... Two boys and one man in one bed and no room for my beauty sleep!
Fonecta = gone, iPad spelling...
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