I learned that together time beats toys any day!
Hi TweenBeat moms and dads!
These are my top 10 personal lessons learned on the road of parenting.
1. Spending time with my children means more than what I bought at Toys-R-Us any day of the week.
2. Tucking them in at night requires a brief show-and-tell and a 20-minute Q&A session – so clear your schedule.
3. Children will tell your business at the Wal-Mart checkout – forcing you to pretend you forgot an item and leave a long line to retrieve anything.
4. Children do not obey the rule – if the bathroom door is closed, do not come in – and barge in only to quickly inform you that you do look funny naked, and then leave.
5. You will cry when you overhear your child praying and they don’t know you’re there.
6. You will receive a call from the school that your son is harboring a family of lizards in his desk.
7. Your children do worry when you are sick – mainly because dad’s in charge.
8. Weeds and other strange plant-type items – are flowers.
9. Your children will use their spy gear against you. Think twice about purchasing such items. And finally …
10. If you decide to snoop in your teenager’s book bag to catch him doing something wrong, find a paper he wrote about heroes in his life, read it and discover he wrote about you – don’t be too ashamed. Carefully put everything back without a word – and relish the moment.
What personal lessons have you learned so far as you begin to raise your kids? Feel free to share below.
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