Things I Should Not Tell New/Expecting Parents
Things I should let parents discover on their own:
- You love each child differently, but you don’t love one more than the other
- Babies are resilient, and sometimes we drop them
- Heads bleed a lot, if there is water involved it is even more dramatic
- The sun will rise and set on you, until third grade, then they will realize you are not cool
- Diapers leak, and not just urine escapes
- Childbirth hurts, no amount of blowing hee into the air will take the pain away
- Your breasts will never be the same again, this is not a good thing
- It only gets more expensive
Every other part of it is really quite wonderful, but good grief I should have my jaw wired shut when talking to new parents.