18 Things Every Parent Secretly Does. #11 Is GENIUS

“Where’s your mini drum kit gone? I don’t know sweetheart, you must have lost it.”

We love our kids, but sometimes we just need a bit of peace and quiet. Being a parent is tough, especially if you’re new to it- there’s so many learning curves and simple tasks such as grocery shopping or going to the dentist which suddenly results in World War 3.

Also, did we mention it is EXHAUSTING?! We always heard it was tiring, but my god- there’s times when we’ve almost fully fell asleep standing up.

Anyway- this isn’t an article complaining about the woes of parenthood, we’re here to celebrate the sneaky things we all secretly do in order to have some alone time or to simply just check our emails.

If you’re new to this whole parenthood thing- take note of these GENIUS pieces of advice and use them wisely;

1) We stuff our face with junk food after the kids are in bed

We can’t whip out the Haribo at 5pm- the kids will be all over them and we all know what happens when we give our kids anything sugary before bed- they turn into The Tasmanian Devil. We stash them in the top cupboard ready to chow down on them later.