Simple Tests Before You Decide To Have Children

Clive_Woody

FOLLOW THESE 14 SIMPLE TESTS BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO HAVE CHILDREN

Test 1
Women: To prepare for pregnancy, put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front. Leave it there for 9 months.
After 9 months remove 5% of the beans.

Men: To prepare for children, go to a local chemist, tip the contents of your wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself.
Then go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office. Go home.
Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last time.

Test 2
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.
Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.

Test 3
To discover how the nights will feel:
1. Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 4 - 6kg, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.
2. At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12pm and walk the bag around the living room until 1am.
4. Set the alarm for 3am.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.
6. Go to bed at 2.45am.
7. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs in the dark until 4am.
9. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off.
10. Make breakfast.
Keep this up for 5 years. LOOK CHEERFUL.

Test 4
Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems:
1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hang out.
3. Time allowed for this: 5 minutes.

Test 5
Forget the BMW and buy a practical 5-door wagon.
And don't think that you can leave it out on the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that.
1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment and leave it there.
2. Get a coin. Insert it into the CD player.
3. Take a box of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat.
4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.

Test 6
Getting ready to go out:
1. Wait
2. Go out the front door
3. Come back in again
4. Go out
5. Come back in again
6. Go out again
7. Walk down the front path
8. Walk back up it
9. Walk down it again
10. Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.
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.
12. Retrace your steps
13. Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours come out and stare at you.
14. Give up and go back into the house.
15. You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.

Test 7
Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.

Test 8
Go to the local supermarket.
Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child.
A full-grown goat is excellent. If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.
Buy your weekly groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your sight.
Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.
Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.

Test 9
1. Hollow out a melon
2. Make a small hole in the side
3. Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it side to side
4. Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.
5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.
6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor.
7. You are now ready to feed a 12-month old child.

Test 10
Learn the names of every character from the Wiggles, Barney, Teletubbies and Disney.
Watch nothing else on television for at least 5 years.

Test 11
Can you stand the mess children make? To find out:
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains
2. Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds and then rub them on clean walls.
4. Cover the stains with crayon.
5. How does that look?

Test 12
Make a recording of someone shouting 'Mummy' repeatedly.
Important: No more than a 4 second delay between each Mummy - occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet if required.
Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years.
You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

Test 13
Start talking to an adult of your choice.
Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt sleeve while playing the Mummy tape listed above.
You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.

Test 14
Put on your finest work attire.
Pick a day on which you have an important meeting. Now:
1. Take a cup of cream and put 1 cup of lemon juice in it
2. Stir
3. Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt
4. Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture
5. Attempt to clean your shirt with the same saturated towel
6. Do not change, you have no time.
7. Go directly to work
You are now ready to have children, ENJOY!!

Kaz2904

Oh so true! I laughed out loud, DS thinks I'm laughing at Captain Mack!
The only thing missing is the fact that you feel like you've been punched in the gut when they tell you they love you!
And how someone can make you angry to the point of strangling them and melt it away by giving you a disgustingly wet sloppy and snotty kiss!

wornoutmumoftwo

Excellent, and so true!

I especially liked: Make a recording of someone shouting 'Mummy' repeatedly.

My two are 4 and 5 and it is CONSTANT!

Well done for this.

r.mac_2

OMG - I have just failed 13 out of 14 tests!!!!!

the only one I passed was number 7 - already do this with husband :roll:

wes_cov

12 months too late i'm afraid

still trying to work out why something soooo small needs sooooo many things

and can create such pandamonium

oh and forgot you can kiss this good bye too :beer:

angelfairy

Open this thread thinking that "oh someone is thinking the same things as me" and thought i was going to read a post full of interesting medical info.

But hey, gave me one massive laugh - maybe need to speak to hubby about our decision to try for a baby.

Thanks for making me a laugh (on a bad day).

Clive_Woody

beccaoz wrote: »

Open this thread thinking that "oh someone is thinking the same things as me" and thought i was going to read a post full of interesting medical info.

But hey, gave me one massive laugh - maybe need to speak to hubby about our decision to try for a baby.

Thanks for making me a laugh (on a bad day).

Our little monkey is now almost 2 and I read this when I got it by email and just sat there nodding in agreement. How on earth the human race has survived so long is beyond me...

shelly

r.mac wrote: »

the only one I passed was number 7 - already do this with husband :roll:

Totally agree with you there. :rotfl:


I also agree with what Kaz commented on. I don't have kids of my own yet unfortunately but have lots of cousins and when they first tell you they love you...but not as much as they love sweets:rotfl: is magic!

*Louise*

4 and 9 made me laugh most

Brilliant list!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Clive_Woody

*Louise* wrote: »

4 and 9 made me laugh most

Brilliant list!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Yep agree with that. Test 9 gets even better when they start feeding themselves, then the fun and mess really starts...

Paparika

test 12 reminded me of an episode of family guy.



Fantastic post, so true