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Things you wouldn’t have done before you were a parent

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Username721 · 12/03/2023 18:32

I genuinely would never have dreamed of going out in half the states I do now. Of course your priorities change when a child comes along but here we are!

Snot on my clothes? Baby wipe and go.

Hair last washed? Can’t remember.
Creme Egg for breakfast? Totally acceptable.
Ms Rachel? I see more of her than I do my friends.

Anything you would never have done before kids which is now totally acceptable to you?

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Summerscoming23 · 12/03/2023 20:59

Picked someone's nose / sucked their snots.

Caledoniablue · 12/03/2023 21:22

lifesnotaspectatorsport · 12/03/2023 20:49

Not as funny as the other replies but: I'm always amazed at how my pre-kid self would go to make a cup of tea ... and just hang around by the kettle waiting for it to boil. Maybe checking social media or just daydreaming. La la la.

Now I immediately take those 2-3 minutes to empty or stack the dishwasher, pop a load on, wipe surfaces, order something I forgot on Amazon, get children a drink/ snack etc.

I am incapable of not multitasking post-kids!

Yes to this! In the time it takes to boil the kettle for a cuppa I can do a whip round of the whole kitchen, dh somehow still has the ability to stare into thin air for those 3 minutes and it gives me the rage. So many wasted minutes Grin

Also the granny pants I wore when I was pregnant, pre kids I wouldn't have been caught dead in them. Now it's all I own.

BettyBoopy · 12/03/2023 22:04

Worn massive Granny pants (am so never going back to thongs)
picked someone else's nose
wipes someone else's bum
pulled a (hard, constipated) poo out of someone's bum that was stuck (this was a low point)
let someone blow their nose on my scarf and carried on wearing it (no tissues that day!)
going out looking like a mad homeless person each day
going out without brushing my hair or teeth
talking to myself out loud
eating chocolate with my head in the washing machine so I didn't have to share

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