Surviving babies

My sister just sent me the link above, to a wonderful collection of sayings from weary parents, including such gems as:

"Before children, luxury is a day at a spa. Afterwards it's having a bowel movement without someone shouting at you through the door. "

"The male incapacity to keep hands and willy apart starts at a distressingly young age. "

"Children don't actually die if they eat cat food ... it may even give them shinier hair and stronger teeth."

and many more. Not only funny, but us happy-go-lucky childless singletons can enjoy the humour without putting on a gloomy face and muttering "so true, so true". And of course once the hormones start flowing and the hair starts growing, the wee darlings will turn into truculent grumps with the vocabulary of neanderthals, the hygiene of warthogs, the sexual appetites of satyrs, and the social skills of lobotomised fruit flies. And of course they'll take the complete opposite views to their parents every time, so if you want to bring up your offspring as good socialists you need to push the Daily Mail and Reader's Digest at them at every opportunity. At least, that's what I was like as an adolescent...