‘I had not realized beforehand that children really cost a lot of money’
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Enormous screaming and crying fits, standing with the blush of shame because of a comment from your little one or having to spend tons of money on princess shampoo. Some things would have been helpful to know for parenting.
Ceriel (44): “It’s a phase. It’s a phase. It’s a phase. I say it to myself maybe a hundred times a day. Especially now that my daughter has hit puberty. Everything is stupid and she doesn’t feel like anything. But this is also about…”
Screen time
Mary (45): “If I had known how addicted kids can get to an iPad, I never would have bought it. My ten-year-old daughter can’t be beaten. If I’m not looking out, she’s behind that thing from early in the morning until late at night. When I take him away, it ends in a huge scream and cry. My girlfriend texted me exactly the same issue the other day. Is there already a rehab clinic for children?”
Shame on the jaws
Andrew (44): “Sometimes kids can embarrass you so much. Recently my daughter Fiep (9) laughed at a birthday party saying that mom ‘is quite often a bit drunk’. And when she asked in the doctor’s waiting room what ‘that throbbing feeling in her pee’ was when she watched a movie in which two people kiss, I really didn’t know where to look.”
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Miss Tikkie
Fabienne (40): “I hadn’t realized beforehand that children really cost a lot of money. School fees, hockey dues, clothes, shoes, jackets, presents for birthdays. It all adds up to a few hundred euros a month. And the things they need are getting more and more expensive.
“It’s hard to say no when she video calls me from the drug store with a bottle of princess shampoo in her hand”
Now that my daughter Fiene (11) is in group eight and is occasionally allowed to shop in the village herself, things are getting out of hand. My own fault of course. Because it’s hard to say no when she video calls me from the drugstore with a bottle of princess shampoo in her hand and asks if she can have it. After such an afternoon of shopping I receive from her the umpteenth tag that I can afford. I have now baptized her Miss Tikkie and we can happily laugh about it.”
Children’s parties
Joanie (43): “Could someone have warned me about the event called children’s parties? What hell: the inventing, the organizing, the screaming children and then there is always a child who whines, a child who cries (usually that whiner) and a child who is in your allergy. I quickly stopped organizing parties myself. Outsourcing is the advice I would give new parents and that is how I will approach it when Gina turns ten.”
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