1) That you be on time. Goodness knows I hate being late, but when you have young children things do not always go to plan - no matter how good your plan is. Absolutely guaranteed that if you are running on time a poo nappy/diaper will happen just as you about to walk out the door. A big smelly escaping poo that takes ages to clean and involves a change of clothes.
2) Keeping your young children quiet (at any time for longer than say 5 mins). The reason is that children do not have impulse control. If it is in their head it is spoken a second after, usually at maximum volume. If they want to jump up and down then they will do so. It is not naughtiness it is because their brain has not developed enough for their impulse control to kick in before the action does.
3) That they keep things clean/unbroken/untouched. If you don't want an under 12 to touch it don't leave it out. If they can reach it it will get touched.
4) Expect you to have a conversation when your children are present. Sure we can, so long as it is realised that it will be interrupted, usually at the most critical moment in the conversation. Kids have radar that way.
5) Stay up late (even if kids have gone to bed. Two reasons. I am tired - have spent the day with kids - that is exhausting. Two: I have to be up first thing in the morning. No sleep in to catch up (kids wake anywhere from 5AM onwards) and almost never get a chance to get a nap in during the day either. So no I do not want to stay up past 11PM unless you want to be the one to look after the kids in the morning while I sleep in?
There. Got that off my chest. I am sure there are others but those are the biggies!
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3) My niece broke a clock at my parent's house and even though she was being a spaz and didn't calm down when she was told to calm down, we still all told my mom it was HER fault. Because she's the one that put the clock in such a stupidly precarious position in the first place.
5) I always say that sure, I can get a sitter and go out, but there's no babysitter there in the morning!
5) Exactly! That is why upcoming 10th anniversary is going to be sooo exciting! We have an all night babysitter! Woot! And we will be waking up in another city so we won't be woken up by them demanding to see us.
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