Think you are ready to have children?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2218515/Think-ready-children-Hilarious-new-parent-test-taking-mummy-blogs-storm-MIGHT-just-off.html

This made me smile, so thought I'd share  


Most broody mothers see having a child as a wonderful gift from God but one anonymous blogger has set about putting paid to that ideal.
A candid new parent test highlighting the high and lows of motherhood is taking the internet by storm after being reposted on countless mothering blogs.

The test - 14 steps to follow before you have children - was recently posted on Mamami by Chet, who was sent the parenting test by a friend.

Chet said: 'Most people will tell you that "it" is the hardest, most rewarding, rollercoaster job you will ever have - there's no pay, you are on duty 24/7 and, at times, it seems like there are few rewards.

'Being a parent has its ups and downs. I wouldn't change my title as "mummy" for anything in the world, however when this came through my inbox from a great friend it made me laugh (a lot!)'
If you think you are ready to embrace the joys of motherhood, we have printed the 14 tests here to see if you are really up to the challenge...




Test 1: Preparation
Women: To prepare for pregnancy
1. Put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front.
2. Leave it there.
3. After 9 months remove 5% of the beans.
Men: To prepare for children
1. Go to a local chemist, tip the contents of your wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself
2. Go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last time.



Test 2: Knowledge
Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels and how they have allowed their children to run wild.

Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners and overall behaviour.
Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.

Test 3: Nights
To discover how the nights will feel:

2. At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to sleep.1. Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 4 - 6kg, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.
3. Get up at 11pm and walk the bag around the living room until 1am.
4. Set the alarm for 3am.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.
6. Go to bed at 2.45am.
7. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs in the dark until 4am.
9. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off.
10. Make breakfast.
Keep this up for 5 years. LOOK CHEERFUL.

Test 4: Dressing Small Children
1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hangout.
Time Allowed: 5 minutes.

Test 5: Cars
1. Forget the BMW. Buy a practical 5-door wagon.
2. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.
3. Get a coin. Insert it into the CD player.
4. Take a box of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat.
5. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.


Test 6: Going for a walk
a. Wait
b. Go out the front door..
c. Come back in again.
d. Go out.
e. Come back in again.
f. Go out again.
g. Walk down the front path.
h. Walk back up it.
i. Walk down it again.
j. Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.
k. Stop, inspect minutely and ask at least 6 questions about every piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way.
l. Retrace your steps.
m. Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours come out and stare at you.
n. Give up and go back into the house.
You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.

Test 7: Conversations with children
Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.

Test 8: Grocery Shopping
1. Go to the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child - a fully grown goat is excellent. If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.
2. Buy your weekly groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your sight.
3. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.
Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.



Test 9: Feeding a 1 year-old
1. Hollow out a melon
2. Make a small hole in the side
3. Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it side to side
4. Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.
5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.
6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor.

Test 10:TV
1. Learn the names of every character from the Wiggles, Barney, Teletubbies and Disney.
2. Watch nothing else on television for at least 5 years.

Test 11: Mess
Can you stand the mess children make? To find out:

2. Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains
3. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds and then rub them on clean walls. Cover the stains with crayon. How does that look?
4. Empty every drawer/cupboard/storage box in your house onto the floor and proceed with step 5.
5. Drag randomly items from one room to another room and leave them there.

Test 12: Long Trips with Toddlers
1. Make a recording of someone shouting 'Mummy' repeatedly. Important Notes: No more than a 4 second delay between each Mummy. Include occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet.
2. Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years.
You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

Test 13:Conversations
1. Start talking to an adult of your choice.
2. Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt sleeve while playing the Mummy tape listed above.
You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.

Test 14: Getting ready for work
1. Pick a day on which you have an important meeting.
2. Put on your finest work attire.
3. Take a cup of cream and put 1 cup of lemon juice in it
4. Stir
5. Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt
6. Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture
7. Attempt to clean your shirt with the same saturated towel
8. Do not change (you have no time).
9. Go directly to work
You are now ready to have children. ENJOY!!

I LOVED this. I saw it last week. I especially love taking goats to the grocery store because those are my kids exactly. By the time I get to check out they've put like $20 worth of smurf in the cart and opened and ate another $20 worth.

Quoting Mrs. Post-tato Head™:" I LOVED this. I saw it last week. I especially love taking goats to the grocery store because those are ... [snip!] ... exactly. By the time I get to check out they've put like $20 worth of smurf in the cart and opened and ate another $20 worth."

I love the getting ready for work one. I don't work... but I swear, every single time without fail. When I am dressed up nicely to go somewehere, a child decided to dirty me just as I am walking out the door.

Lol that was funny

I read this recently and died laughing! I know so many people who don't h=have kids yet and they "know" their kids won't act this way, and that's all I could think about.

Hahaha.
Today was the day we are starting to try and conceive.
Second thoughts maybe.

Lol, that just reality checked me because my oldest is 7 and then we have a 5 month old...it's been so long lol

Quoting Lily Bairle:" Hahaha. Today was the day we are starting to try and conceive. Second thoughts maybe."

lol, we're trying for our 3rd. I figure everything is already ruined anyway.... whats one more kid? lol

Hahaha! I read this the other day and laughed so hard.. I am expecting in Feb and am totally naive when it comes to what it will be like... I am the text book mum to be who says.. "oh no.. it will be fine! I will just carry on as normal and my kids will be fantastic".. haha... what a load of bolony.. and after reading this its made it all the more real for me... At one stage I even decided that I was going to have a 'quiet birth'.. just get my game face on and do this smurf... no tears, no screaming with a nice little baby at the end... Pffff... God I am glad I got my head out of my ass before I actually got into the birthing suite!!

Quoting Lissy36:" Hahaha! I read this the other day and laughed so hard.. I am expecting in Feb and am totally naive when ... [snip!] ... little baby at the end... Pffff... God I am glad I got my head out of my ass before I actually got into the birthing suite!! "

Bahahaha. I remember with my first, thinking "oh, it will be easy.... I've looked after those electronic dolls at school... it will be like that" omg... I was so young and naive!
Actually though, I am a quiet labourer. I don't scream or cry. I pretty much just go quiet, and wont talk. lol. SO was real surprised.