Handy parenting tips 

Kids may be the hardest bunch to cope with sometimes but there are ways you can relate with them and still feel cool about your connection with them.

The list below which is not in any dictionary (yet!) offers you some of the most handy parenting terms you need to know now:
Common Core Floored: The inevitability that you won’t be able to help your child with her math homework because, no matter in which decade you went to high school, the way you learned is no longer “right.”

Facebook-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: When you share the incredibly profound things your 4-year-old says with your Facebook friends, only to read it the next day and realize it makes no sense whatsoever and that you were just exhausted.

Mummy Hoarding: The perfectly justifiable burying of the premium ice cream way back of the freezer because your kids’ taste buds are in no way sufficiently sophisticated to appreciate the difference between a $5 pint and a freezer-burned bargain brand.

Mom Jerk Reaction: A surge of junior competitiveness toward another mother when she mentions that her same-age kid is learning to code in Scratch while yours is still all about Minecraft.

Momsplanation: The age-appropriate, measured, honest yet mortifying definition you give for a grown-up word your child asks about. Then you discover that he meant “prosecution,” not “prostitution.”

Outgroan: The sound you make when your second-grader no longer fits into the $79 blue blazer you bought him a month ago for his spring concert.

Punishment Bluff: The profound relief you feel that your child finally put the Lego pieces away, because you’d threatened to confiscate his electronics if he didn’t— and you just didn’t have the energy to enforce it.

Say You’re Sorry (not sorry): When you force your child to apologize for something rude she said—such as that Grandpa’s new girlfriend’s boobies look fake— and that you secretly agree with.

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