The Funny Things Our Kids Do | I Bet Your Kids do the Same
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It’s easy as a parent to focus on the things that maybe frustrate you. We feel that the more we’ve had to parent, the more mellow we have become because now we just see them repeat the same things that the first ones did and it now just makes us laugh. Our children do a lot of funny things that we maybe initially thought was annoying, but after realizing it’s just something that kids do, it has become endearing, like when they feed the dog and the dog is covered in food later, or when they stand on your feet while trying to get a better view of what you’re doing.
Standing on Rosie’s feet 1:25 Dog funnies 4:30 Vacation and defiance 7:05 Egging each other on 13:00
“They do that at the dinner table where they’re both at either head of the table and they’ll just start throwing food and it’s funny because you can’t really say anything because if you tell one of them off for doing it, the other one is laughing, so then they laugh and you can’t tell two of them off… You have to just wait for them to grow out of it.” 13:15
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