Before you become a parent, you may have a vision in your head of what it’ll be like, but you can’t really know. You may picture your kiddos opening presents on Christmas morning or teaching them to ride a bike, but there are some things you don’t find out until you’re a mom or dad. Reddit user u/take7pieces asked theReddit parenting community: “What are the things no one told you before having kids?” And moms and dads were happy to share. These are some of the best responses:
- “The total lack of bathroom privacy.”
- “The way kids can make you sing the same song eight times before bed.”
- There is no “just run to the store quick.”
- “Answering questions you thought you knew the answer to. What’s fire? Why do we have sky? Why are bricks harder than sticks? I didn’t realize how little I actually know about things until I had a kid old enough to ask me.”
- “When YOU get sick, no one gives a f**k and you just have to keep going.”
- “How you can spend a whole day begging for it to be time to put the kids to bed.... and then three minutes after they are asleep you want to sneak in for a snuggle because you miss them.”
- “How being potty trained is so much more annoying than diapers.”
- “The desire for them to hurry and grow up or get to a certain stage of life but also being sad that you will never see them as little as they are now.”
- “How forgiving kids are. That you actually don’t need to get it perfect the first time or every time.”
Source:Lifehacker