Advice Your Mom SHOULD Have Given You

There comes a time in every mom’s life when you say to yourself, “Why didn’t my mom ever tell me these things?” What’s some of the top advice your mom should have given you? Here’s my list: 

1. Your child may be a picky eater, but they will eat anything from the floor or that comes from a trashcan.
2. When your child uses the “F” word and uses in in context, don’t laugh.
3. Move your “fun times” stuff somewhere they can't reach it, or preferably a locked box. They will find it and either model it for you or play with it. Again, don’t laugh.
4. Even though you said you would NEVER yell at your child, you will.
5. Baby wipes are for more than butts; keep them everywhere!
6. Buy more diapers than you think you’ll need, eventually you will run out and freak out; if any are leftover when he outgrows them, give to charity or another family.
7. Trial-by-fire is great, but Google is better. 
8. You will never eat by yourself again; there will always be some little person's germy fingers in your plate. Watch out and don’t stick them with your fork.
9. All diapers leak.
10. The weight on the box of diapers is NOT how much they will hold. 
11. You do not have to have your kid potty trained by the time they are two years old. Stop stressing out about it!
12. Stop trying to keep up with the other mom’s in your playgroup, they are not June Cleaver and neither are you.
13. Your kids are more important than a clean house.
14. You will talk about the kids during date night.
15. It's okay to talk about your parenting failures as well as the triumphs.

 What advice do you wish you had been given?