Are you even a parent if...

[Soubriquet]

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

quack

Your turn

Child: put my shoes on.

Official mum response: I don’t think they’ll fit me.

Never gets old.

Say "who lives here?" As you pull into the drive, "child's name lives here*

Constantly sing stupid advert songs, for me today it's "magic magic magic beans!"

When cleaning I always sing 'Dustin, for Justin. Dustin, for Justin...'

Also, 'waffle doggee...'is on a constant loop in my head. Ds1 sings himself to sleep with that bloody song.

Curly k or Kicking kuh? And im an elf baaaaah!

Singing the tidy up song whilst cleaning with no children present.

I was caught at work belting out the Go Jetters theme, it’s very catchy

Don't cross the road without the green Man and glare at others who do

Just to clarify I definitely DON'T carry on watching Paw Patrol after DD has gone to bed no not me

Touch your nose Blink three times .........

(From kids program Superwhy )-' say your name ! ' have NEVER EVER said my name

Now I have Sarah and duck quack in my head 😂
Baby shark do do do

ive a 8 and 14 y old and ive no idea what this is

is it cbebies stuff? as we have never watched that

Often when i kiss DP automatically go for a big lip smacker and an enthusiastic "MWAH" noise. Defo a boner killer

My health visitor was spelling out the name of an app she recommended I download the other day. She spelt it to me using the sounds of letters rather than the actual letters 😄 it made me smile.

I don't spell words using letter names anymore, I use the sounds - it confused the hell out of the nice lady at the bank the other day. Bloody phonics.
I also push trolleys back and forth and count walking up and down steps even if it's just me and DH.

I was thrilled the other day when the fire engine pulled up alongside me with the fire fighters waving at me. My mate was driving
All those years of excited shouts of "FI-GIN!" from the back of the car.

"TRACTOR!!!" Is another word I have to be careful about randomly shouting to no one.

I have to remember not to chatter out loud to myself in the supermarket when the DCs are in school. It was one of the perks of the job of pre-school parenting, chattering to yourself in public and not looking like a nutter.

When my ds3 was little he loved Eddie Stobbart lorries. I am often on motorways shouting "oh look there's an Eddie", usually i am alone and said son is 26.

Everytime I hear Sarah and Duck I.
Find the remote 😂😂

I wiped a friends mouth in a restaurant, i just couldn't help it.

It’s not duck it’s ‘guck’

...refer to objects using your child's made up/misheard versions. Like Oxygen (Yorkshire) Pudding...

Know and be able to name all the different type of steam engines: tank engines, saddle tank engines, big city engines...

If you don't do the 'floss' ...

I can’t floss....but I know it doesn’t involve your teeth

I've just been reminded of another.
Ds1 told me that he was in the garden having an adventure.
My mind immediately went "Goggy goo ah!"
Bloody baby Jake.

Today I introduced my brother's three kids to Sarah and Duck. They are not allowed to watch TV, and watch a very few, very occasional educational programmes on Youtube.

It was excellent and my work is done.