“I’ve already found the toilet,” my son said with relief in the hardware store.

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So much fun, kids. You get a lot in return. Shame on your cheeks, for example. And only because they are honest.

Yvon (40), mother of a 4-year-old son.

“Björn was just potty trained and that meant to me: watch out. Especially when we went out. No matter how much I paid attention, no matter how many times I asked, it wasn’t until he couldn’t hold it in anymore that he said he had to pee. The same goes for the construction market. While I went looking for an employee to ask if Björn could go to the bathroom, he escaped my attention.

When I found him again a few minutes later, he cheerfully announced that he didn’t have to pee anymore, because he had already found the toilet. That turned out to be the case, namely in the sanitary path. Embarrassed, I then asked an employee for some soapy water.”

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They don’t check anyway

Marieke (32), mother of a 5-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter.

“At the entrance to the zoo, they almost never check the age of your child, I had noticed. Maybe not very neat, but I decided not to buy a ticket for my three-year-old daughter. “If they ask you something, just say you’re two,” I said.

“I’m three, but at the zoo I’m two, okay?”

It all seemed to go well and we were allowed to continue. Until my daughter apparently regretted not being able to put into practice what she had just learned. “Hello ma’am,” she said, loud enough for everyone around to hear. “I’m three, but at the zoo I’m two, okay?” I quickly pretended to be confused – ‘Oh, it was free until three, wasn’t it?’ – and didn’t know how fast I had to rush to the checkout.”

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