What no one tells you about being a parent to a toddler/preschooler is that:
- you will develop a love-hate relationship with kid food because you serve it day in and day out. Right now I'm loving peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, but if I never saw another Goldfish again I would be a very happy person.
- some in this age group develop their own code language to indicate they don't like something, i.e. "I'm getting cold" or "I'm getting tired". Innocent onlookers, not realizing it's code, will honestly think your child is either cold or tired, and as the only actually tired person in the trio, you will not possess the ability to explain the code language.
- when your child says no, they really mean yes. But sometimes they mean no or kind of.
- you could own every toy in the world, but your kids will prefer to play with rocks, sand and milkweed pods.
Last but not least, what no one tells you about being a parent to a toddler/ preschooler is that you will get your best laughs and your biggest tears from the things they say. One day, Rosie told me: "You already did lost your mind, mama" (I'm still laughing at that one). The next week, she tells me: "Grampa should come down now." Me: "Down from where?" Rosie: "Heaven. I really miss him!"
It's those kinds of things, said completely out of the blue, that will knock you straight down when you least expect it. Toddler/ preschooler honesty is tough and beautiful all at once.
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