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Read this before you have children...

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(apologies in advance to Gina - we should have told you earlier)

 

This one is a bit lengthy, but well worth reading...

 

If you are thinking of expanding the family

Some of you have already taken the step, but for others, there is still time for the tests...

 

Follow these 15 simple tests before you decide to have children. . .

 

Test 1

Women: To prepare for maternity, put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front. Leave it there for 9 months. After 9 months remove 10% of the beans.

 

Men: To prepare for paternity, go to local chemist, tip the contents of your wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself. Then go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last time.

 

Test 2

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 behaviour. Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.

 

Test 3

To discover how the nights will feel . . .

1) Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 4-6kg, with a radio tuned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.

 

2) At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to sleep.

 

3) Get up at 12pm and walk the bag around the living room until 1am

 

4) Set the alarm for 3am.

 

5) As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.

 

6) Go to bed at 2. 45am.

 

7) Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off

 

8. Sing songs in the dark until 4 am.

 

9) Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off

 

10) Make breakfast.

 

Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.

 

Test 4

Dressing small children is not as easy at it seems.

1) Buy a live octopus and a string bag.

2) Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that none of the arms hang out. Time allowed for this - all morning.

 

Test 5

Forget the BMW and buy a practical 5-door saloon. And don't think that you can leave it out on the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that.

 

1) Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.

 

2) Get a coin. Insert it in the cassette player.

 

3) Take a family size package of chocolate biscuits, mash them into the back seat.

 

4) Run a garden rake along both sides of the car. There. . perfect!

 

Test 6

Get ready to go out.

1) Wait

2) Go out the front door.

3) Come in again.

4) Go out.

5) Come back in.

6) Go out again.

7) Walk down the front path/driveway.

8) Walk back up it.

9) Walk down it again.

10) Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.

11) Stop, inspect minutely, and ask at least 6 questions about every piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue, and dead insect along the way.

12) Retrace your steps.

13) Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours come out and stare at you.

14) Give up and go back into the house. You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.

 

Test 7

Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.

 

Test 8

Go the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is excellent). If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat. Buy your weeks groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.

 

Test 9

1) Hollow out a melon.

2) Make a small hole in the side.

3) Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it from side to side

4) Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.

5) Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.

6) Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor. You are now ready to feed a 12 month old child.

 

Test 10

Learn the names of every character from the Fimbles, Barney, Teletubbies and Disney. Watch nothing else on TV for at least five years.

 

Test 11

Can you stand the mess children make?

To find out, smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains.

Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.

Stick your fingers in the flower beds then rub them on the clean walls.

Cover the stains with crayon.

How does that look ?

 

Test 12

Make a recording of Janet Street-Porter shouting "Mummy" repeatedly. Important: No more than a four second delay between each "Mummy " - occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required). Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next four years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

 

Test 13

Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continuously tug on your skirt hem/shirt sleeve/elbow while playing the "Mummy" tape made from Test 12 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.

 

Test 14

Put on your finest work attire. Pick a day on which you have an important meeting. Now:

1) Take a cup of cream, and put 1 cup lemon juice in it.

2) Stir.

3) Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt. Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture.

4) Attempt to clean your shirt with the saturated towel.

5) Do NOT change. You have no time.

6) Go directly to work.

 

Test 15

Go for a drive, but first. . . .

1) Find one large tomcat and six pit bulls.

2) Borrow a child safety seat and put it in the back seat of your car.

3) Put the pit bulls in the front seat of your car.

4) While holding something fragile or delicate, strap the cat into the child seat.

5) For the really adventurous. . . . Run some errands, remove and replace the cat at each stop.

 

 

You are now ready to have children!

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That's fab :lol:

 

Tests 12 and 13 are particularly true in my house at the moment. DD, who is 3, has now taken to shouting our names at the top of her voice in exasperation when repeated whines of 'mummy, mummy, mummy' or 'daddy, daddy, daddy' doesn't get her what she wants.

 

She'll be yelling "Oi you!" to get our attention soon at this rate :roll:

 

Cookie. xx

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That's fab :lol:

 

Tests 12 and 13 are particularly true in my house at the moment. DD, who is 3, has now taken to shouting our names at the top of her voice in exasperation when repeated whines of 'mummy, mummy, mummy' or 'daddy, daddy, daddy' doesn't get her what she wants.

 

She'll be yelling "Oi you!" to get our attention soon at this rate :roll:

 

Cookie. xx

 

I have taken to ignoring Rosie yelling from the other side of the house at me. I don't answer unless she is standing beside me and talking sensibly. After a few initial strops it works well.

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I have taken to ignoring Rosie yelling from the other side of the house at me. I don't answer unless she is standing beside me and talking sensibly. After a few initial strops it works well.

 

I've just started a similar policy Clare!

 

When I hear yelling coming from the far corners of the house I go and find her, say "If you want to talk to me, come and find me" and then scarper back to where I originally was, so she has to come and find me.

 

Sounds a bit perverse :roll: but she's sarting to get the message. Cam, who is 6, rarely does the yelling from the other side of the house thing now.

 

Next I just need to get them to stop talking to me at exactly the same time! If I had a pound for every time I've said "I can't hear two people talking at once" I'd be able to afford a (blue eglu) by now!

 

Love,

Cookie. xx

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Test 3 sounds just about right, have you been to my house? You forgot to put as soon as hubby makes amorous advances ie:- reaches over to kiss you, tries holding your hand or even puts a smile on his face a little 2 ft figure starts shouting mama mama dada dada, from the cot next to the bed, they have a built in radar. :D:D

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Test 11

Can you stand the mess children make?

To find out, smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains.

Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.

Stick your fingers in the flower beds then rub them on the clean walls.

Cover the stains with crayon.

How does that look ?

 

 

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

 

I'm taking Kate's advice from an earlier thread, but have included a blind fold.

 

My fingers are firmly in my ears...lala lala la la la al alalala lalala alala

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I have taken to ignoring Rosie yelling from the other side of the house at me. I don't answer unless she is standing beside me and talking sensibly. After a few initial strops it works well.

 

I've just started a similar policy Clare!

 

When I hear yelling coming from the far corners of the house I go and find her, say "If you want to talk to me, come and find me" and then scarper back to where I originally was, so she has to come and find me.

 

Sounds a bit perverse :roll: but she's sarting to get the message. Cam, who is 6, rarely does the yelling from the other side of the house thing now.

 

Next I just need to get them to stop talking to me at exactly the same time! If I had a pound for every time I've said "I can't hear two people talking at once" I'd be able to afford a (blue eglu) by now!

 

Love,

Cookie. xx

 

I don't have the yelling through the house either. Your techniques to discourage it sound very effective.

 

Loved the parenting tests. Don't know if I would pass them now though! :lol::?

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