{"id":328,"date":"2011-06-27T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/?p=328"},"modified":"2022-08-11T21:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:53:24","slug":"14-truths-about-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/14-truths-about-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Truths about Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before you have a baby there is so much that you need to know but no matter how hard you prepare there will always be surprises.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sleeping like a baby means: Sleeping peacefully for a couple of hours and then screaming at the top of your lungs for a few hours more.<\/li>\n<li>Sleep moves from your list of needs to your list of wants.<\/li>\n<li>Trash cans: The easier it is for you to throw those diapers away the easier it is for your child to eat them.<\/li>\n<li>Toilet guard: One more thing to accidentally pee on. And your guests won&#8217;t know how to use it so they will break your toilet trying to get the latch open.<\/li>\n<li>Clear Plug guards: Very irritating if you are plugging in a night light in the dark.<\/li>\n<li>Baby Barriers: Easy to trip over.<\/li>\n<li>Strollers: Mold magnets.<\/li>\n<li>Poo: It gets smellier as your child gets older.<\/li>\n<li>Babies only smell like babies after you put baby lotions and powders on them.<\/li>\n<li>People who say it is financially easy to squeeze a baby into your budget\u201a clearly have big budgets.<\/li>\n<li>You sterilize their milk bottles but let them drink yucky bath water.<\/li>\n<li>Expensive toys= useless, cardboard=very useful, expensive adult toys like remote controls and cell phones= invaluable<\/li>\n<li>Each child is such an individual that baby books are mostly useless.<\/li>\n<li>Potty training is really Parent training.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you have a baby there is so much that you need to know but no matter how hard you prepare there will always be surprises. Sleeping like a baby means: Sleeping peacefully for a couple of hours and then screaming at the top of your lungs for a few hours more. Sleep moves from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-homepage","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}