Toddlers

Toddlers exact ancestral revenge in many forms.

• If your baby is a thumb-sucker (read: self-soother) you’ll rejoice until you one day realize that you can take away the pacifier but the kid carries that thumb everywhere.
• If your baby is a pacifier baby, you will wait too long to take it away and that convincing Susie the baby ducklings at the pond need all her pacis will elicit the same reaction from her that beating ponies with puppies would.
• Handing a toddler a broken cookie is like handing her a tantrum grenade.
• So his shoes are on the wrong feet. Deal with it. You have a bigger battle ahead over the sleeveless top and dirty shorts he insists on wearing to Mommy and Me Music Class in February.
• You’re all ready to go to that doctor’s appointment, right? Wrong. Junior took a pit stop in the splash and play fun room otherwise known as the hall bath. And look, your car keys don’t float!
• Parents of toddlers are to mental health professionals what year-end bonuses are to salesmen.
• Even if the restaurant does have highchairs and booster seats, resist the urge to dine out with your toddler. You’ve heard the phrase like oil and water? Like IHOP and toddlers.
• Christ was tested in the desert by Satan. You will be tested in the grocery store by a preschooler. You will discover that you are not Christ.
• Young children love to play in the bath unless they are actually dirty.
• Because toddlers throw all their food on the floor, animal shelters are able to unload dogs on young families.