My girlfriend and I babysitted her friends 2 year old daughter and I can say she tired the hell out of both of us. She ran every where, climbed on every thing and cried her eyes out every time we told her she couldn't do anything. Not to mention she would not listen to anything we said.

We took her to the park for her to burn off energy and it didn't work. She still doesn't know the concept of "lines" and "waiting" so she would cut in front of everyone and go down the slides.

She pooped and pee'd everywhere and food never went were it was suppose to go. I literally only had her for 10 hours but it feels like an eternity. AND her mom also has a 8 month old boy, works part time and is now going back to school.

I tip off my hat to her and anyone else who is a single parent!

 

I had her asleep for 10 minutes in the car and when I took her out she woke up and just kept going.

 

Just feed her ice cream, candy, and soda for 10 hours.

 

Redbull works. Build up the blood sugar and their system overloads with insulin. Out like a light. Or just shake them...

But seriously, my mom raised me and my to younger siblings on her own. I have tremendous respect for her. It's no easy task what so ever.

 

Dude.... you weren't even alone.


Imagine working 12 hours then coming home and having to deal with that. My mom worked doubles at IHop when I was a kid to keep me fed and clothed. 16 hour work days only to come home and have to deal with my hyper, talkative ***.

Mad respects to all working PARENTS.. especially single ones.

Being at work and away from your kids sucks. Especially when you're paying $60 a day for someone else to watch them. Then you're tired and stressed out and have to deal with your kids going cookoo in one way or another and the fight of your heart and body... I'm tired and I want to watch TV or sleep... but I love my kids and I want to go to the park or roll around on the floor with them.

It's rough. But worth every minute and every lost or gray hair.

 

^^ Well said.

My mom, too, had to work doubles to keep my siblings and I clothed, fed, and have a roof over our heads. When she re-married, 2 more kids came into the mix, which was pretty tough, even with the extra income from my step-father. Though I don't live with them anymore, I try to go to their house a few times a week and help them out with whatever they need. They aren't old, late 50's, but my step-father works 12 hours a day (graveyard), and my mother has to deal with patients at the SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility) so she's always tired.

Remember to pay your parents back for everything they did for you, whether you remember it or not!

- Kevin

 

Duct tape works Wonders!!!!!

I agree OneManArmy, only i had a single Father raise me. mad props to the single parents who had/have to come home to nutty/hyper *** kids like us

 

As a parent, I'm just at reality checks like this. Thanks for sharing.

 

filial piety, thats whats up

 

BTW, OP.... that was when she was AWAKE, FED, and DRESSED.

See what it's like when it's bed time and you have to bath, changed, *wind-down*, get them to sleep... then spend the entire night sleeping only 20 minutes at a time while the baby cries or whatever... then get up at 6am when the natural bio-clock of the kid wakes up screaming for breakfast and you have to get them ready, fed, changed and off for the day.

Then see what's it's like with the day + night put together.

Then do this EVERYDAY over and over and over for YEARS.

And add siblings.

It gets better, and you figure it out as you go along. But it's never even close to what life was before kids.

And yet my kids are the best thing to happen to me in my life.

These are my personal quotes:

"Kids are proof that God is the original inventor of hazing"

"Parenthood... it's a wonderful torture"

 

 

^Hahaha that was amazing!

Yeah it was definitely tough for just half a day, I can't even imagine having her for a week.

I'm sure if it was my kid I would be a lot more grateful but that little girl was torture

 

I'm laughing out loud! hahahaa