Ready To Be A Parent? Read This First....

Posted by Dexie

So you think you're ready to be a Mommy or a Daddy? In my opinion, you can never be ready. No one is financially stable enough to be a parent. Unless you're really really really filthy rich. No is ever emotionally ready to be a parent. No one is knowledgeable enough to really be prepared in being a parent. No matter how many books you've read and advices you've gotten from so-called experts, friends and relatives. Parenting is a learning process. What works for one parent might not necessarily work for you. Follow your gut and do what's right. Some things will work, some will not.

If you've been contemplating on taking that next step in life, read some of these situations and occurrences that might be able to prepare you somehow. I found it online one day and I thought it's something that spoke true about parenting that I've read in a long time. Trust me, this is just the beginning.....

2. Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels, and how they have allowed their children to run wild. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behavior. Enjoy it -- it'll be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.

3. To discover how the nights will feel, walk around the living room from 5 pm to 10 pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious noise) playing loudly. At 10 pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1 am. Put the alarm on for 3 am. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2 am and make a drink. Go to bed at 2:45 am. Get up again at 3 am when the alarm goes off. Sing songs in the dark until 4 am. Put the alarm on for 5 am. Get up. Make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.

8. Get ready to go out. Wait outside the bathroom for half an hour. Go out the front door. Come in again. Go out. Come back in. Go out again. Walk down the front path. Walk back up it. Walk down it again. Walk very slowly down the road for 5 minutes. Stop to inspect minutely every cigarette butt, piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue, and dead insect along the way. Retrace your steps. Scream that you've had as much as you can stand until the neighbors come out and stare at you. Give up and go back into the house. You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.

11. Hollow out a melon. Make a small hole in the side. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure a lot of it falls on the floor. You are now ready to feed a 12-month-old baby.

12. Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street, Barney, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Read the complete list here. After reading it and you think you are ready, well, trust me honey, no one is ever ready to be a parent. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be one. Coz amidst all these, there is joy, happiness, innocence, trust and unconditional love waiting for you. Don't be scared. Don't set yourself up coz that's when things go awry. Parenting will never reach perfection. But you will do the best you can and you will experience something in life that's irreplaceable and honest to goodness Pure Joy.

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ayen said:

hehe.. Funny list.

"When you find yourself singing "I Love You" at work, you finally qualify as a parent."

I did! LOL

Posted at 01:19 PM, on October 28 2007

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