+ the skin on my neck is not suitable to be used as a handhold for a baby learning to stand, nor as a teething apparatus
+ Bob is the stroller equivalent of Cadillac
+ Water and cardboard boxes never fail to be interesting
+ Laxatives: prunes, sweet potatoes, peaches
+ Outside > inside
+ Children + sugar = 😅😮😲
+ if they are hiding (out overly quiet) they are probably doing something they are not supposed to do or something they fear will get them in trouble (aka licking playdough)
+ If you pretend to lick sand, they may actually lick sand… and that gets problematic very quickly
+ Nannying sometimes means going home with another woman’s breast milk on my shirt.
+ There’s a fine art to interacting with others kids and their guardians at the playground. There’s a set of standard first questions (e.g. how old is he? what’s his name?) and a proper hovering distance maintained when there’s a possibility for necessary intervention (e.g. when one tries to hurt the other, when they don’t share/take turns).
+ I’m at the age where I am consistently assumed to be the parent (by women).
“Nope, just the nanny.”
Though better than when some (the men) think I’m in high school…
+ Terminology such as ‘ergo’ and ‘nuby’
+ All the words to “Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?”
+ The basics of baby sign language
+ If you give a kid a cake, he’ll be bouncing off the walls. If you teach a kid to bake (with sand), he’ll be content doing that every day for who knows how long.
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