Are you even a parent if...

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You don’t say quack every time you hear “Sarah and Duck”

quack

Your turn

I found myself going "woo woo woo woo" at a passing fire engine recently and waving enthusiastically at the firemen. This would have been OK had DS not been at school and I, a 49 year old woman, hadn't been on my own.

I can never go outside again.

Every night we say goodnight to the kids by me saying "Sarah and Duck" and the kids saying "Quack"

I still say it’s a beebar car, as in a police car. I’m 60 and my DS is 40.
If we’re in a supermarket my DH and I will pick up piece of cheese put it to our ear and say hewo DGS 1

You don't sing the tune along with whatever child's ride on toy is in the entrance to the supermarket even when your children aren't with you.

Whenever I see a thatched cottage I always say “ there’s a house with hair on”! My son said this many years ago!

Oops! Oh no. What am I gonna do?!

Also thanks to Molly and Mack.

And I’m an Elf!

Isn't that right Duggie?
Awoof!

"Wait a minute...someone's not in bed!"

I do the pushing the shopping trolley thing. My grandmother, who's 80, told me that until she was in her 50s she would often sway from side to side in bus stops, imagining she was pushing a pram.

Oh and I also push my trolley back and forward when I'm queuing at the till. Obviously the shopping might wake up if I just stood still. Like a normal person.

Years ago I was on a course and one morning was for first aid, with all sizes of resuscitation doll. I asked a colleague if he was a father as he stood there automatically rocking the baby doll.... 😂

I’m constantly bouncing up and down weather there’s a baby strapped to my chest or not.

You tell a twisty dc in a store they can't have the thing they are asking for.
And you are shopping dc - free. .

My son’s first word was SarahAndDuckQuack

CigarsofthePharoahs
Duggee is a firm favourite in our house!
There was a spider in the living room a while ago, I told DH to squish it.
His response: “Not sure I can do that....I don’t have my spider badge! Awooof!”

Isnt it time for....

You don’t accidentally shout “Look! A Fire Engine!” whenever one comes by although you don’t have a child with you.

I was once driving an extremely well qualified, important and expensive consulting engineer to a construction site and could not suppress the urge to point out “look, a fire engine in a hurry”

I have also been know to put out my hand to hold my boss’s hand across the road.

3 year old sometimes calls me Flop in a really whiny voice when she wants something.

@iAMequal we've watched the full Netflix run six times in about a month. Please no more

I always rock/push/away with trolleys and empty prams. It's a sickness.

I also say 'have you flushed the toilet, washed your hands and turned the lights off?' approximately 8 times a day when DSD is over.

I cannot say "you're welcome" or "let it go" without singing.

There's so many others, and my mum does many too, they're natural and on the spot things so I can't even think of the top of my head what they are 😂

Also, similarly, eldest particularly gives me the side eye for pointing things out with their welsh name, because we don't live in Wales anymore.

It’s the bloody Daniel Tiger songs for me.
“If something goes wrong, turn it around and find something good!”

If you don't put "doo doo doo doo doo doo" after the start of that song...

If you can go on any form of public transport without going wall eyed trying to keep all the kids from spontaneously throwing themselves into the road by pure effort of keeping them in your sights. Stay away from the bloody kerb!

Obviously not a parent as I do none of these things 🤔

...if you’ve never stood on a piece of Lego in the dark at 4am!!

Have a young baby who needs to be rocked ALOT to settle, out for dinner without the kids and was asked if i was ok as was rocking back and forward in the chair out of habbit.

Who’s at the door...who’s at the door....