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Words for mom and dad

Definitions for parents

Definitions for parents

Amnesia : Condition that enables a woman who has gone through labour to make love again.

Dumbwaiter : One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert.

Family planning : The art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster.

Feedback: The inevitable result when your baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots.

Full name: What you call your child when you're mad at them.

Grandparents: The people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right.

Hearsay: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.

Impregnable: A woman whose memory of labour is still vivid.

Independent: How we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say.

Ow: The first word spoken by children with older siblings.

Puddle : A small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing dry shoes into it.

Show off: A child who is more talented than yours.

Sterilize: What you do to your first baby's dummy by boiling it and to your last baby's by blowing on it.

Top bunk: Where you should never put a child wearing Superman pyjamas.

Verbal: Able to whine in words.

Whodunit: None of the kids that live in your house. - e-digg

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