Why parenthood is like a fairy tale…

1. Though they eat neon fruit leather by the yard, your children act like you want to poison them if you offer a real apple.
2. Each night when you return home, several waist-high people greet you. One is sleepy and one is grumpy.
3. Every time you try to put them to bed, they act like you want them to sleep for 100 years.
4. Your kids insist that their expensive new beds are too soft or too hard. However, your overcrowded bed is just right.
5. Your kiss has all the magical qualities of Prince Charming’s.

From Parenting Magazine, November, 2008 (But, two of them I made up myself).