I don’t usually do lists, but I just kept noticing these things and thought, I can’t be the only one. I know life is about 100x more convenient for the modern parent today than it was for our parents back in the day, but still! Parenting is no easy gig. Parents, read on and see if you can relate to any of these daily occurrences that you probably didn’t think twice about before having kids!
9 Things You Only Notice When You Become a Parent
9. Sidewalks that don’t have ramps.
This.
8.Where every drive-thru Starbucks is. Because as precious as that cup of coffee is, it’s just not worth lugging the baby out of the car for. Or maybe it is. Or not. Or is.
OR DRIVE-THRU STARBUCKS. Problem solved.
7. Where all the elevators are in the mall. I park at Nordstrom because it comes with an elevator which makes life with a stroller so nice! I also know exactly where all of the other TWO of the elevators in our expansive mall are located. And the nursing area. And the children’s play area. And Starbucks. And about 10 other kid-friendly places that, five years ago, I didn’t even know existed.
6. Uncovered electric outlets. You bring your toddler to a friend’s place and realize the world is truly a dangerous, dangerous place. What kind of crazy people don’t cover their electric outlets and cushion their coffee table corners?!
5. The absence of a gate is a wonderful, wonderful thing. We’ve gone through several configurations with gating off areas of the house in the last year or so, but we are now nearing the best one: NO GATES AT ALL. I can’t even count the number of bruises and bumps I’ve received from turning the corner too fast through a gate or tripping over a gate.
Every time we’ve removed one of the gates, I feel a new freedom as though we’ve renovated a section of our house. I love it.
4. Where all the automatic door opening button entrances are.
And all the nice people in the world who hold doors open for you so you can push that stroller through the doors without looking like a clumsy noob of a mom.
3. How impressive a piece of poop is. Especially when it ends up in a potty. *cue applause* I shall spare you photos. (Not all parents are that considerate, as I’m sure you’ve seen on FB…).
2. Motorcycles and loud cars. This is one of the few things that used to make bad words involuntarily run through my head. I’d be paused at a stop light and my baby would finally be quietly napping… and then some obnoxiously loud motorcycle would pull up next to us and start making sounds loud enough to wake a herd of cows!
AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HOW IS THIS LEGAL.
1. Daylight savings. Just why. I mean, we’ve always noticed it, but trust me… you notice it in a whole new way when you have kids.
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I’ve only been a mom for 3 months, and I totally agree. Except for Starbucks– I still don’t drink coffee. 🙂
Good self control! I have it maybe once a month… decaf… it puts me in a happy place haha :]