This made me smile...wanted to share it!

I can relate to most of this,

List of Top 10 Things I Wish I'd Known Sooner, But I Still Would Have Had Kids...Really!
by Anne Hines

1. Children learn and develop according to a very strict schedule: their own.

2. There are no 16-year-olds who are not toilet trained.

3. Any parenting lesson you painstakingly learn with your first child will be entirely inapplicable to your second child.

4. The key to great parenting is a ton of love, support and acceptance. Make sure you're getting enough.

5. Children are not as smart as those parenting books make them out to me. They're way, way smarter.

6. With dedication and hard work, there will come a point when you know exactly how to handle any stage of your child's development. Generally this will occur when he's/she's halfway through the next one.

7. When you find yourself, at 8am on a Saturday, waist-deep and shivering in your community pool, trying to coax a screaming two-year-old off the deck, what you need to remember is this: No presidential election was ever won or lost on the basis of which candidate was prepared to put his face in the water.

8. There is only one thing that ever kept me from being a perfectly organized, perfectly patient, perfectly wise parent: being human.

9. There is only one foolproof way to keep your children from whining in the grocery checkout line: Leave them at home.

10. Raising children is confusing, challenging and over far too soon. Sometimes the wisest thing to do is to just sit back and enjoy it.