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Allow a Happy 2012 – take it lightly

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We’re a full week into the new year and it dawns on me it’s been quite awhile since I’ve come and played with you all at Downstream Parenting. Seems like the perfect time to remind myself… and possibly you… that parenting doesn’t need to be an upstream battle. As long as you relax and remember that you are simply in the midst of an approximately 18 year experiment, being raised by a kid (or kids), and you’ll enjoy it more if you put more emphasis on your sense of humor than anything else.

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11 Step Program for Those Thinking of Having Kids

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Today’s brilliant tongue-in-cheek <but only a little> post was received from a friend over at facebook, Amy Lawrence.

11 Step Program for those thinking of having kids

Lesson 1

1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the paper.
5. Read it for the last time.

Lesson 2

Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already are parents and berate them about their…
1. Methods of discipline.
2. Lack of patience.
3. Appallingly low tolerance levels.
4. Allowing their children to run wild.
5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child’s breastfeeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behavior.
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