That's funny! And full of love. Thanks for posting.

Some of those things are ridiculous and some are vulgar. i would have welcomed the author's kids to our house but would not have let mine go to theirs. (Yes, I do know it's meant to be funny.)

OMG!!! Laughed so hard, I still have tears streaming down my face!

Read it aloud to my husband, and could barely get the words out while reading parts of it becuase I could barely breathe from all the laughing.

Ewwww. Sorry, but nope.

We used to live in a very small neighborhood where the homes were built on acreages around a very large pond (some people called it a lake). When my DS was about 4 years old, I told him there were HUGE snapping turtles in the pond and if little kids went down there without there parent's, the snapping turtles would come out of the water and get him! I WANTED him scared to go down there-it worked for awhile!

The Santa thing was good for awhile too-worked every time!

IMO, he didn't achieve what he was trying for. I didn't find this humorous at all. Didn't find it not humorous. Found it smug and missing a beat.

Note to this guy: You are not the first, nor only, parent who loves their children more than anything.

Oh, and farting as you leave walk away from someone is an act of hostility, IMO. You're a father, and adult….act like one.

Oh My - eating the good stuff out of the Oreos and then giving the leftover chocolate wafer to your kids? That is too sad.

Some of them were funny but reading the entire list was too much. I felt a little ill by the time I was done.

I will tell you what my neighbor did to his kids on Christmas Eve that I wish I had known about when my kids were little. He told his children that they weren't allowed downstairs until 8 am on Christmas morning. Then after they fell asleep at night he turned their clocks back an hour so that they didn't come down until 9 am.

One of my children woke up at 5 every Christmas and then woke up his siblings who were only too eager to wake us up too. And after being up until 1 or 2 on Christmas Eve assembling the last of the toys and putting things under the tree - I would have relished sleeping in until ...say....6 am.

I think this article is tongue-in-cheek and was not meant to be taken seriously or literally.

OK, I'll cop to it, but I think a lot of parents did/do this. I had 3 kids in less than 4 years and I was usually more exhausted than they were at the end of the day. Occasionally, when they were too young to catch it, I would skip pages during the bedtime story to hurry things along and get more "me" time in the evenings.

Maire-Cate.....would you believe until I was 7 (I was the youngest and had 3 older brothers) my parents didn't even put the tree up until we were all in bed Christmas Eve. They were up all night decorating the tree, putting bikes and toys together, setting up the train set, etc.....I don't know how they did it!

Forgot to add....after opening presents, mom making breakfast, we'd all get dressed and go to Mass. Lunch and later on Christmas dinner.....no dishwashers in those days. Mom must have been up for two days straight....bless her heart!

Overall I didn't think it was very nice, but this....

"My youngest insists that he only likes chicken. He actually likes everything. Hamburger is "brown chicken." Lettuce is "green chicken." Carrots are "carrot chicken." In our house, we have "chicken" every night."

...made me laugh.

Sheeshareell: I wasn't going to comment on this because it's silly and really isn't comment worthy (IMO) but we had a child just like that. Everything that we fed him began with the word chicken. Oh by the way - milk comes from chicken as well. Just in case you didn't know.

Blfenton, LOL. I think the whole chicken thing is cute. All meats in this house are 'chicken' (we do explain that they're not). Most times it doesn't matter as long as there's a dash of ketcup!

That's funny. The same kid does love his ketchup. Actually, that kid is now 25 so he eventually figured it out as well.