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Living with one child is like living with a demanding, but mostly reasonable, roommate who really likes spending time with you until she goes to bed early.

Having two or more children is like living in a circus where all the performers are deaf.

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Best two lines of prose I have read on the Internet today. Or this week in fact.

as my own mother put it (here on the eve of our second): with one child, your world is turned upside down, but it's still essentially you're world they're living in.

when you have 2, you live in their world.

this is going to be fun. :)

You might think living with children is tough, but my roommates over the past several years could collectively be likened to children with access to a liquor cabinet.

So true! I'm parent to a couple of twins (2.5yo) and the selective deafness is what really puts me down

I've found that you need to get down to their level and look them in the eyes to get around that. (Supernanny tip, works!)

No two kids are alike. And, things that work for nannys don't always work for parents.

Hell, things that work for one PARENT, don't work for another. My daughter acts awesome with me even when I take care of her all day for weeks, but she's a complete terror around my wife.

As a father of triplets + a 2-and-half-year-old I must wholeheartedly agree.

Our observation was that when any two of our kids are in the house it is noisy, but an order of magnitude less than when all three are.

As I am having my first child in December I find the first part of this reassuring, as to the second half, well time will tel :-)

as the father of a 11 month old daughter I can attest to part one, and that I'm terrified of #2. :-)

I wish I could up-vote this more.

Hear, hear! Or in this case, NOT!

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