Things my kids have taught me....

Lots of people have asked me for tips or advice since I became a mother. Sometimes I even offer it without being asked hehe

I think that is a trap all us mothers eventually fall into, so thankfully most other mothers are accommodating enough to let us ramble on while they smile and nod, all the while knowing that they won't be doing anything we've suggested!!

So with that in mind, and while sitting here listening to my boys play rather well together with their duplo, I've decided it's time for a new list!

Things my kids have taught me:

1. The only way to look for something in any sort of box/basket/bag is to up-end the whole thing and then scatter the contents as far and as wide across the room as you can.

2. Banana stains clothes badly. Almost black .Worse than pumpkin, worse than beetroot.

3. Weetbix and milk sets like concrete.

4. Don't even attempt to clean up fresh, wet rice from the floor or table. Wait until the next day when it is completely dry.

5. It's not usually the conversations you agonise over having with your kids that are the problem ones (ie death or childbirth). It's usually the spontaneous questions that should be the easiest to answer that somehow lands you in trouble.

6. Never underestimate how old a child has to be before they can understand and repeat what you have said to the person you were saying it about.

7. You will never 'just be two minutes' ever again.

8. You need to pack and take almost as much stuff for an overnight trip as you do for a week's stay.

9. No matter what you said (and you probably did really, truly believe it when you said it) regarding never buying your children treats while grocery shopping to keep them quiet, bribing them to behave in public or threatening them with various discipline you will resort to each of these, and probably a lot earlier than you think.

10. We are all experts before we have our children. Then they arrive and we realise that the books taught us next to nothing.

I hope that all my readers have taken this post with as much tongue in cheek as it is written :)