AMNESIA: A condition that enables
a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again.
BOTTLE FEEDING: An opportunity
for Daddy to get up at 2am too.
DEFENSE: What you'd better have
around de yard if you're going to let de children play outside.
DROOLING: How teething babies
wash their chins.
DUMBWAITER: One who asks if
the kids would care to order dessert.
FAMILY PLANNING: The art of
spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep
you on the edge of financial disaster
FEEDBACK: The inevitable result
when the baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots.
FULL NAME: What you call your
child when you're mad at him.
GRANDPARENTS: The people who
think your children are wonderful even though they're sure
you're not raising them right.
HEARSAY: What toddlers do when
anyone mutters a dirty word.
IMPREGNABLE: A woman whose memory
of labor is still vivid.
INDEPENDENT: How we want our
children to be as long as they do everything we say.
LOOK OUT!: What it's too late
for your child to do by the time you scream it
PRENATAL: When your life was
still somewhat your own.
PREPARED CHILDBIRTH: A contradiction
in terms.
PUDDLE: A small body of water
that draws other small bodies wearing dry shoes into it.
SHOW OFF: A child who is more
talented than yours.
STERILIZE: What you do to your
first baby's pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby's
pacifier by blowing on it
STOREROOM: The distance required
between the supermarket aisles so that children in shopping
carts can't quite reach anything.
TEMPER TANTRUMS: What you should
keep to a minimum so as to not upset the children.
TOP BUNK: Where you should never
put a child wearing Superman jammies.
TWO-MINUTE WARNING: When the
baby's face turns red and she begins to make those familiar
grunting noises.
VERBAL: Able to whine in words
WEAKER SEX: The kind you have
after the kids have worn you out.
WHODUNIT: None of the kids that
live in your house.
WHOOPS: An exclamation that
translates roughly into "get a sponge."