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   <title><![CDATA[Preparing for a baby : OMG this is awesome Mrs Mojo!!...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=18732">heaf3</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 23 April 2009 at 3:19pm<br /><br />OMG this is awesome Mrs Mojo!! so funny!]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Preparing for a baby : ...I showed this to DH last night,...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=10235">caitlynsmygirl</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 25 March 2009 at 11:57am<br /><br />...I showed this to DH last night, he went very pale , ran out the door and I haven't seen him since <img border="0" src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0"> <br /><br /><br />(kidding,..... except for the pale part ) ]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=19848">jaycee</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 24 March 2009 at 7:54pm<br /><br />LOL - love it Mrs Mojo. The perfect giggle to brighten up the end of a LONG day. I have sent it to all the mums I know! <img border="0" src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0"> ]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Preparing for a baby : Haha thats hilarious. Test 5 describes...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=17548">Rachael21</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 24 March 2009 at 6:21pm<br /><br />Haha thats hilarious. Test 5 describes my car perfectly but instead of rake marks down the sides try hammer dents in the bonnet and a cracked windscreen. I actually have a special tool just for getting coins out of my tape player.]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Preparing for a baby : BUMP for Joscia   ]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=20127">BugTeeny</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 24 March 2009 at 10:17am<br /><br />BUMP for Joscia <br /><img border="0" src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley10.gif" border="0"> ]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=21590">jazzy</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 16 February 2009 at 12:02pm<br /><br />loved it, ha ha. <img border="0" src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0"> ]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=21315">Lexidore</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 16 February 2009 at 10:40am<br /><br />Absolutely BRILLIANT!!]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=20626">SpecialK </a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 16 February 2009 at 9:56am<br /><br />Please tell me it's not that bad!!!! ]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Preparing for a baby : *sigh* can&amp;#039;t wait!!! he he...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=21271">queenb</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 16 February 2009 at 9:03am<br /><br />*sigh* can't wait!!! he he this is brilliant! thanks, will send to all my friends who have already had their bubbas ... i'm sure i've been one of those non-parent parents who judge others' kids behaviours lol]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Preparing for a baby : LOL that is classic, love it!!...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=9903">My3Sons</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 16 February 2009 at 8:45am<br /><br /><P align=left>LOL that is classic, love it!!<IMG src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley8.gif" border="0"></P>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=21837">LadyLizard</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 16 February 2009 at 8:37am<br /><br />I read it and particularly loved this part<br /><font color="red">Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels and how they have allowed their children to run wild. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners and overall behaviour.</font><br /><br />My H has an annoying habit of doing the above, and I think he thinks parenting is going to be a piece of cake...<br /><br />Someones in for a rude awakening!]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=20446">Aithne</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 15 February 2009 at 6:25pm<br /><br />Hahaha, brilliant !!<br /><br />But i have to say, i think im now a bit scared hehe <img border="0" src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley10.gif" border="0"> ]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=20865">ClareB</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 15 February 2009 at 5:08pm<br /><br />hahahahaha I've laughed over this one so much my face hurts oh boy are we in for it!!]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Preparing for a baby : Hahaha Good stuff ]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=21255">AngeB</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 15 February 2009 at 4:47pm<br /><br />Hahaha Good stuff <img border="0" src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0"> ]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=564">lizzle</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 14 February 2009 at 9:40pm<br /><br />that is so funny....and I have a 10 cent coin jammed in the cd player in the car....]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=21099">MindyW</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 14 February 2009 at 12:52pm<br /><br />Good grief, i have just paled and feel exhausted already...... time for second thoughts?.......]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=18107">sarahm</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 13 February 2009 at 9:08pm<br /><br />Love it!!! My tummy hurts from laughing]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=20127">BugTeeny</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 13 February 2009 at 8:42pm<br /><br />Aahhhh briliant <img border="0" src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0">]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=19372">NeoshasMummy</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 13 February 2009 at 7:56pm<br /><br />hahahaha<img border="0" src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0"> <img border="0" src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley10.gif" border="0"> ]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=19107">MissAngel</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 13 February 2009 at 7:42pm<br /><br />LOL!! That was brilliant!!]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=18525">Daizy</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 13 February 2009 at 7:31pm<br /><br />Hahaha<img border="0" src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0"> Perfect!]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=17523">Jay_R</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 13 February 2009 at 7:14pm<br /><br />I LOVE IT!!!!]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=19393">MrsMojo</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 24537<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 13 February 2009 at 6:50pm<br /><br /><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><strong>FOLLOW THESE 14 SIMPLE TESTS BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO HAVE CHILDREN.</strong></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 1 - Preperation</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Women: To prepare for pregnancy:-</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Leave it there.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3. After 9 months remove 5% of the beans.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Men: To prepare for children:-</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Go to a local chemist, tip the contents of your wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself </FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Go to the&nbsp;supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head&nbsp;office.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last time.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 2 – Knowledge</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their&nbsp;methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance&nbsp;levels and how they have allowed their children to run wild. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners and overall behaviour.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 3 – Nights</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>To discover how the nights will feel:</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag&nbsp;weighing approximately 4 - 6kg, with a radio turned to static (or&nbsp;some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to&nbsp;sleep.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Get up at 12am and walk the bag around the living room until 1am.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3. Set the alarm for 3am.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>4. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5. Go to bed at 2.45am.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>6. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>7. Sing songs in the dark until 4am.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>8. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>9. Make breakfast.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Keep this up for 5 years. LOOK CHEERFUL.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 4 - Dressing Small Children</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hang out.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Time Allowed: 5 minutes.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT></P></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 5 – Cars</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Forget the BMW. Buy a practical 5-door wagon.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3. Get a coin. Insert it into the CD player.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>4. Take a box of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car. </FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 6 - Going For a Walk</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Wait</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Go out the front door</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3. Come back in again</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>4. Go out</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5. Come back in again</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>6. Go out again</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>7. Walk down the front path</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>8. Walk back up it</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>9. Walk down it again</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>10. Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>11. Stop, inspect minutely and ask at least 6 questions about every piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>12. Retrace your steps</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>13. Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the&nbsp;neighbours come out and stare at you.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>14. Give up and go back into the house.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.*</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 7</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 8 - Grocery Shopping</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Go to the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child - a fully grown goat is excellent. If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Buy your weekly groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your sight.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having&nbsp;children.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 9 - Feeding a 1 year-old</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Hollow out a melon</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Make a small hole in the side</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3. Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it side to side </FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT>4.&nbsp;</FONT>Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.</FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on&nbsp;the floor. </FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><U><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Test 10 – TV</FONT></U></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Learn the names of every character from the Wiggles, Barney, Teletubbies and Disney.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Watch nothing else on television for at least 5 years.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U></U></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 11 – Mess</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Can you stand the mess children make? To find out:</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains </FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT>2.&nbsp;</FONT>Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.</FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds and then rub them on clean walls. Cover the stains with crayon. How does that look?</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>4. Empty every drawer/cupboard/storage box in your house onto the&nbsp;floor &amp; leave it there.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 12 - Long Trips with Toddlers</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT>1. Make a recording of someone </FONT>shouting 'Mummy' repeatedly. <EM>Important Notes: No more than a 4 second delay between each Mummy. </EM><EM>Include </EM><EM>occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet.</EM></FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 13 – Conversations</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Start talking to an adult of your choice.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt&nbsp;sleeve while playing the Mum my tape listed above.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><U>Test 14 - Getting ready for work</U></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1. Pick a day on which you have an important meeting.</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2. Put on your finest work attire</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3. Take a cup of cream and put 1 cup of lemon juice in it </FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>4. Stir </FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT>5.&nbsp;</FONT>Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt </FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>6. Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture and attempt to clean your shirt with the same saturated towel </FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">7. Do not change (you have no time).</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>8. Go directly to work</FONT></P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</P><P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>You are now ready to have children. ENJOY!<IMG src="https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/smileys/smiley8.gif" border="0"></FONT></P>]]>
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