The weird things parents do

Parents. We all have some. Some of us are actual parents Sometimes parents are amazing. Sometimes? Not so much. But a lot of parents (amazing or not) do a lot of weird things. So, that’s what we’re looking at the strange things parents do.

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• Calling your baby partner Mommy or Daddy or Mom or Pops or whatever.
• Talking about poop and asking if they have to go to the bathroom.
• Early bedtimes . In Spain they get to stay up til 10 because families want to interact.
• Spelling out words
• Driving the SUV
• Lying that you have allergies – often to pets, sometimes to people.
• Baby talk
• Throwing kids into the water to learn how to swim.
• Write poems for the water at the restaurant.
• Mr. Tree – One dad would pretend the tree was pontificating about the tree farm.
• Fancy pants – Some parents only use wine glasses to drink everything.
• Going back to work right after you have a baby. In Belgium you get four months. Austria? Until they are two.
• Baby walkers – Canadians have banned them.
• Lifting up your child to smell their butt.
• Covering their eyes when scary or sexy things happen on videos.
• Trying their food before they try their food. And cutting it up into itty bitty pieces.
  
  The actual FUNNY stories are in the podcast itself, so check it out.