You know your a parent when...

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Share your delights from pregnancy to your 'kids' being 50 - what's a sure sign you're a parent.

you know you're a parent when...
• half the people you talk to call you (child's name)'s Mum.
• you don't know who is number 1 in the charts but you know all the theme songs to the CBeebies shows.
• wet wipes are essential at all times even just a walk to the park.
• no is 15% of your fault vocabulary.

When you say the most random sentences you never thought you'd say - like "don't lick the cat!"

When you absentmindedly rock a shopping trolley like a buggy

When you catch sick in your hands / down your bra rather than let it go on the carpet

When you’re in a client meeting and pull a hanky out of your handbag to blow your nose then realise you’ve just used the spare pair of toddler’s pants you shoved in there instead...

When every meal you have involves a juggling act of plate and toddler sitting on your lap.

When you accidentally call your DH Daddy when the kids aren't around as you are so used to it 'Daddy can fix that.'

Telling your kids to put the bedroom TV on so you can have some extra sleep on the weekend.

Ending sentences with kids TV show catch phrases or songs. 'Let's look inside ... Mr Tumbles spotty bag'.

You catch your child's sick in your hands and you're pleased.

When you see a tractor coming towards you on the road and have to point it out to the empty car

See also fire engine, big lorry, train on a bridge....

rocking foot to foot despite holding nothing, also with supermarket trolleys

or how about miming the action of opening mouth and chewing (to exemplify good practice during weaning)....except, you're in a room full of adults and you're not eating anything.......

but the true test is the day when you realise you will never ever be without a pack of wet wipes for the rest of your life

When you point out a Crane,a plane,a train,a digger for your DC/DChildren and then realize the deathly silence is because your with a group of adults.

I've also pointed out moo cows,horses,sheeps and pigs whilst being with a group of adults.

You don’t remember your own name or that your DH ever had a name before he became ‘daddy’...
and that you never get a full meal because you’re raising a hobbit who has 27000000* meals a day.

*obviously an overreaction

When you're combing nits out of your child's hair whilst sat on the loo with a bucket next to you in the midst of a violent D&V bug, and you're just impressed with your own multitasking abilities.

Not my favourite memory.

Calling dh a "good boy"! I've accidentally done this loads of times and dh looks at me like . Like when he loads the dishwasher I catch myself enthusiastically saying "oh well done! Good boy!". To be fair it's like having another overgrown child at times.....

When you are moving your stuff over from the big carry all but the kitchen sink bag you use for day to day with a toddler to a smaller bag for a meal out with DH and automatically moving the mini first aid kit ad wet wipes as well... to be fair the wet wipes always seem to be useful!

Yes on the rocking, just about stopped that now he is a toddler. Once I realised that both DH and I and my parents were all sat around chatting and all of us were rocking slightly, DS was asleep in his cot at the time.

In the early months waking up every time DH moved to stop him rolling off the bed, he did it to me too. We didn't even co sleep!