Top Ten parent powers
10. Parents become masters of psychological warfare, making you beat yourself in any argument.
9. Fathers can make up stories to order on the spot.
8. The spatial awareness of mothers increases to a point where they can fit any object into the smallest amount of space imaginable, while you yourself fail miserably when given an object twice the size.
7. Parents with more than one child will in time become negotiators with a level of proficiency the UN can only dream about.
6. Fathers always know how to fill in those last few dodgy questions on application forms that you just can't work out.
5. Mothers acquire exceptional field medical skills for fixing kids who insist on perfecting that Evel Knievel impression.
4. Fathers have a natural skill at fixing even the most futuristic of new toys.
3. Fathers can ALWAYS pick their children up and swing them around, no matter what the size ratio.
2. Both parents develop finely-tuned bullshit detectors and can also find any hidden item ever.
1. Mothers have an inbuilt ability to always use the exact amount of ingredients to use in any dish without the use of scales.