Do you have older and/or younger siblings? If you do, then the miserable person you have become is not your fault. ArcaMax explained how mothers react to the birth order of their children:
YOUR CLOTHES:
1st baby: You begin wearing maternity clothes as soon as your OB/GYN confirms
your pregnancy.
2nd baby: You wear your regular clothes for as long as possible.
3rd baby: Your maternity clothes ARE your regular clothes.
PREPARING FOR THE BIRTH:
1st baby: You practice your breathing religiously.
2nd baby: You don't bother because you remember that last time, breathing
didn't do a thing.
3rd baby: You ask for an epidural in your eighth month.
THE LAYETTE:
1st baby: You pre-wash newborn's clothes, color-coordinate them, and fold them
neatly in the baby's little bureau.
2nd baby: You check to make sure that the clothes are clean and discard only
the ones with the darkest stains.
3rd baby: Boys can wear pink, can't they?
WORRIES:
1st baby: At the first sign of distress--a whimper, a frown--you pick up the
baby.
2nd baby: You pick the baby up when her wails threaten to wake your
firstborn.
3rd baby: You teach your three-year-old how to rewind the mechanical
swing.
PACIFIER:
1st baby: If the pacifier falls on the floor, you put it away until you can go
home and wash and boil it.
2nd baby: When the pacifier falls on the floor, you squirt it off with some
juice from the baby's bottle.
3rd baby: You wipe it off on your shirt and pop it back in.
DIAPERING:
1st baby: You change your baby's diapers every hour, whether they need it or
not.
2nd baby: You change their diaper every two to three hours, if needed.
3rd baby: You try to change their diaper before others start to complain about
the smell or you see it sagging to their knees.
ACTIVITIES:
1st baby: You take your infant to Baby Gymnastics, Baby Swing, and Baby Story
Hour.
2nd baby: You take your infant to Baby Gymnastics.
3rd baby: You take your infant to the supermarket and the dry cleaner.
GOING OUT:
1st baby: The first time you leave your baby with a sitter, you call home five
times.
2nd baby: Just before you walk out the door, you remember to leave a number
where you can be reached.
3rd baby: You leave instructions for the sitter to call only if she sees
blood.
AT HOME:
1st baby: You spend a good bit of every day just gazing at the baby.
2nd baby: You spend a bit of everyday watching to be sure your older child
isn't squeezing, poking, or hitting the baby.
3rd baby: You spend a little bit of every day hiding from the children.
SWALLOWING COINS:
1st child: When first child swallows a coin, you rush the child to the hospital
and demand x-rays.
2nd child: When second child swallows a coin, you carefully watch for the coin
to pass.
3rd child: When third child swallows a coin you deduct it from his allowance!!
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Kid's views on dating & marriage:
HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO
MARRY?
No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God
decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with.
--Kirsten, age 10
WHAT IS
THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?
Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then.
--Camille, age 10
No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.
--Freddie, age 6
HOW CAN
A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?
You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same
kids. --Derrick, age 8
WHAT DO
YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?
Both don't want any more kids. --Lori, age 8
WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?
Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other.
Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough. --Lynnette, age 8
On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them
interested enough to go for a second date. --Martin, age 10
WHAT
WOULD YOU DO ON A FIRST DATE THAT WAS TURNING SOUR?
I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and
make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns. --Craig, age 9
WHEN IS
IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?
When they're rich. --Pam, age 7
The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that.
--Curt, age 7
The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and
have kids with them. It's the right thing to do. --Howard, age 8
IS IT
BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?
I don't know which is better, but I'll tell you one thing. I'm never going to
have sex with my wife. I don't want to be all grossed out. --Theodore, age 8
It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean
up after them. --Anita, age 9
HOW
WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED?
There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there? --Kelvin, age 8
And the #1 favorite is........
HOW
WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?
Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a truck. --Ricky,
age 10
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Some (purportedly) true examples of how children look at things:
My 4-year-old son came
screaming out of the bathroom to tell me he'd dropped his toothbrush in the
toilet. So I fished it out and threw it in the garbage. He stood there thinking
for a moment, then ran to my bathroom and came out with my toothbrush. He held
it up and said with a charming little smile, "We better throw this one out
too then, 'cause it fell in the toilet a few days ago.”
I was trying hard to get the ketchup to come out of the bottle. During my struggle the phone rang so I asked my 4-year-old daughter to answer it. "It's the minister, Mommy," my child said to me. Then she said to our minister, "Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle."
I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman
in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I
was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat,
"Mom! That lady isn't wearing a seat belt!
MY little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker
room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing
towels and running for cover. He watched in amazement and then asked,
"What's the matter haven't you ever seen a little boy before?"
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I
used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. The various
appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs,
unfailingly intrigued her. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth
soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions,
she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"
My little girl was watching us dress for a formal party. When she saw her dad
donning his tuxedo, she warned, "Daddy, you shouldn't wear that
suit." "And why not, darling?" "You know that it always
gives you a headache the next morning."
My daughter had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just wasting
my time," she told me. "I can't read, I can't write and they won't
let me talk!"
My young son opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through
the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the
object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in
between the pages. "Mama, look what I found", the boy called
out." What have you got there, dear?", I asked. With astonishment in his
voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear!!”
Sometimes we find it necessary to
apologize for our children's behavior:
Tired of TV & cell phones hijacking your dinnertime?
Good parenting never stops:
If your kids text you "plz" because it's shorter than "please", text them back "no" because it's shorter than "yes"----fishducky
