Recently we surveyed our readers from Facebook and Instagram and asked them “What is your favorite secret ‘parenting privilege’ that you do that would embarrass you if others found out?”
The answers were surprising and made us laugh more than just a little bit.
You are just going to love these 30 {SECRET} BENEFITS OF BEING A MOM.
These are REAL moms with REAL secrets that they are sharing about motherhood.
Maybe you can relate to one or two…..
1. “The fact I never need an excuse for why I am late.”
2. “I feel okay completely talking to myself all the time because my child is with me. Even if she’s only a couple months old.”
3. “Recording and watching Sophia the First…because I like it.”
4. “When I really don’t feel like cleaning the house I just toss toys around to new areas. When my husband gets home I tell him how hard I worked to clean the house and how our daughter wouldn’t keep it clean. He rubs my back everytime because he feels bad for me!”
5. “That every day can be Pajama-Cartoon-Make-up-Pretend-Fort Day and I don’t have to grow up just yet! I can be in kid mode a while longer.”
6. “If it weren’t for my kids feeding the dog he would never eat.”
7. “My husband and I converted the den in our home into an almost perfectly childproofed playroom so that we could stop fishing toys out from under the couch. When the kids get fussy we can just put them over the gate and they will go play with all their toys and leave us alone.”
8. “If I toot everyone thinks it is the kid.”
9. “Any time I have chocolate and my kid asks for it, I tell her it’s medicine. She never asks for a piece!”
10. “Two words – NAP TIME! At what age is mom supposed to stop ‘sleeping when the baby sleeps’?!?”
11. “I always finish whatever she leaves on her breakfast, lunch, or dinner plate OR I’ll buy ‘her’ a cookie from somewhere… Then she only gets a tiny bit and I’ll eat the rest! 🙂 Probably not good for my waistline, but I would never buy a cookie just for me! It’s for the cute little kid!”
12. “I love using wipes for everything because I always have them on me.”
13. “7 p.m. bed time means in the Spring/Summer I get some daylight to myself ! Say whaaaaat.”
14. “I use my kids as an excuse to get out of anything/everything I don’t feel like doing. “Sorry, the kids need me tonight.” aka “sorry boring adult, i’m hangin with a more funsized human tonight and we’re watching something Disney in our jams!””
15. “Some of my favorite snacks are goldfish and fruit snacks. My toddler barely gets them due to the fact that I wait until he goes to bed to eat them. haha! I even said in my adult life that I feel sorry for my future kids because I love fruit snacks and goldfish so much I won’t want to share. (I do share sometimes)”
16. “If I hand her a Lysol wipe… my fridge, cabinets, dishwasher, floor, ANYTHING at her level is almost always clean!”
17. “I will tell them it is bed time early just so I can get the house work done and go to bed before midnight. Even though they say, “but the sun is still up.” I just tell them it’s because of day light savings.”
18. “I make my food spicy sometimes so I don’t have to share!”
19. “Sometimes I use my kiddos as an excuse to not be productive. I have a 5 year old and 6 week old & sometimes the laundry & dishes just don’t get done. Totally could be done while baby naps {which is a lllll day} but sometimes I just don’t feel like it!”
20. “Taking a bath with my girls. Saves water AND we all get ready for bed at the same time {if I wait until after I bathe them, they just want to get in with me anyway!}”
21. “I get out of of a lot of housework by assigning it to my kids as chores and more whenever they do anything naughty. I just supervise. Now I kind of like it when they don’t listen because it’s less chores for me… oh and they’re learning responsibility!”
22. “We taught our kids that they can’t come out of their room in the morning until the clock says 6-3-0 and they can’t come talk to mom and dad until the clock says 7-0-0. We also taught them how to work the TV so they’ll be quiet while we sleep a bit.”
23. “I now have an excuse to go to places I love, but my husband wouldn’t go to if we didn’t have kids. Disneyland. Build-A-Bear, and local parks and playgrounds are so fun!”
24. “I hide my chocolate in my tampon box so my boys {including my husband} doesn’t know.”
25. “I sneak into the pantry to eat treats. When my boys ask me what I’m eating I ALWAYS say nuts. They hate nuts. More treats for me!”
26. “When my son is getting into something I have my daughter get him because I’m simply exhausted!!” ALSO “older siblings equals free babysitting!”
27. “I LOVE Disney Channel’s “Phineas and Ferb”. It is one of my favorite cartoons. I will remind my kids that is on just so that “I” can watch it.”
28. “My toddler and I have snuggle time in the mornings when he wakes up before I am ready for him to be up. He lays in bed with me and I let him have free reign of the PBS Kids app on my phone. AND… I keep sleeping! It’s perfect! I get some extra sleep, he gets to play with my phone and we get to snuggle. Win-win!”
29. “When I take my daughter to see a new princess movie, I actually dress up along with her. If it makes my daughter wear a giant smile on her face, I will act like the fool to keep it there! Plus it’s soooooo much fun!”
30. “Sometimes I sneak into my kids room and watch them sleep, just because I miss them and being a mom is the best job in the world.”
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