I love reading about all the things people think they’re going to do as parents before they actually have any kids. The fantasy of it all. Their precious little angels abstaining from sugar, back talk, or screens — all because of how well, how perfectly, they’ll parent them. But I really love checking in on the people who’ve said such things to me after they have their own kids, their cupboards now overflowing with cookies and candy, their kids screaming for another episode of Cocomelon on their iPads. It’s not so much “Told you so” as it is “Welcome to hell.”
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