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Before & After Kids: TV and Radio
Before becoming a parent, there are certain parts of life that you know for certain will change, like sleep patterns and coffee intake. Then there are the other, more unexpected changes, like car rides, house departure rituals, and dinner excursions. And some changes are inevitable, but forgotten until they actually happen, like radio and TV choices.
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Before & After Kids: Car Shopping
Every part of the car buying process is now impacted by a needy, whiny, tired, hungry, child, capable of transforming into the devil at a moment’s notice.
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Before & After Kids: Going out to Dinner
Kids make any situation more complicated. Enjoyable activities shared with your partner before kids are still enjoyable (most of the time), but more involved. There is more stuff to pack, schedules to juggle (like sleeping), and variables to prepare for. Going out to dinner is no different.
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Before & After Kids: Leaving the House
We’ve already established that once you have kids your photo stream looks much different, your weekends are more tiring than ever, and every car ride is an unpredictable adventure. But even something as simple as leaving the house, becomes exponentially more complicated with a child.
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Before & After Kids: Car Rides
The next time parents arrive at your house for a dinner party party or family holiday with child in tow, and they look like they’ve been to hell and back, just offer a glass of wine and let them regain their composure, since they might have just endured the wrath of an unhappy child.
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Before & After Kids: Weekends
The other night, Mrs. FWL commented, “Weekends used to be for recharging for the next week, but it’s almost the reverse now.” Bingo! I had been thinking about this recently, and couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but she summed it up in one sentence (as she frequently does).
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Before & After Kids: Pictures
A parent’s life can basically be divided into two eras – BK and AK (before kids and after kids). Everything changes once the bundle of joy enters our life. These are just a few examples of life BK and AK, as shown through pics.