A Mothers' Dictionary

AMNESIA:      A condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again.

BOTTLE:       An opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2am to do the FEEDING

DEFENSE:      What you'd better have around de yard if you're going to let de children play outside.

DROOLING:     How teething babies wash their chins.

DUMBWAITER:   One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert.

FAMILY:       The art of spacing your children the proper PLANNING distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster

FEEDBACK:     The inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots.

FULL NAME:    What you call your child when you're mad at him.

GRANDPARENTS: The people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right.

HEARSAY:      What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.

IMPREGNABLE:  A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid.

INDEPENDENT:  How we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say.

LOOK OUT!:    What it's too late for your child to do by the time you scream it

PRENATAL:     When your life was still somewhat your own.

PREPARED CHILDBIRTH:     A contradiction in terms

PUDDLE:       A small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing dry shoes into it.

SHOW OFF:     A child who is more talented than yours.

STERILIZE:    What you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it

STOREROOM:    The distance required between the supermarket aisles so that children in shopping carts can't quite reach anything.

TEMPER TANTRUMS: What you should keep to a minimum so as to not upset the children.

TOP BUNK:     Where you should never put a child wearing Superman jammies.

VERBAL:       Able to whine in words

WEAKER SEX:   The kind you have after the kids have worn you out.

WHODUNIT:     None of the kids that live in your house.

WHOOPS:       An exclamation that translates roughly into  "get a sponge."

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