This is true. Three-year-olds have the marvelous combination of being really smart and yet having no sense at all.
They should really spend some time in the salt mines, except they’d probably escape.
What clichés are we talking about here? Because this whole thread is very confusing to me. Maybe I just don’t get what everyone is talking about or maybe my daughter isn’t old enough to have gone through them yet. She’s 16 months, and I never felt the need for CO detectors or baby gates. I have been peed on and vomited on a few times though, but I expected that to happen. I really don’t feel like my life as a parent is clichéd at all.
We were talking about how your life may have been different before you had your baby and how it changed after…
I bought 4 CO detectors because we heat our home with gas and we have a wood burning stove, and I am just a bit paranoid with a newborn around. That’s all.
As for other cliches, well there are too many to list. Essentially the question was, do you feel different after having a baby?
And its the “bit paranoid” that is the cliche. The fear you have is rational, but four now that baby is here when pre-parent you were perfectly content to die in your sleep - that’s the irrational part.
Thanks for clarifying. My answer is still no. I don’t feel any different. I’m not really a worrier. Other than having way less free time; my life is not very different at all.
My wife said the same thing when I brought them home… 
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Thanks for clarifying. My answer is still no. I don’t feel any different. I’m not really a worrier. Other than having way less free time; my life is not very different at all.
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And that will vary between people…does your spouse or partner feel the same? In our situation my wife feels very much like you do…however, I feel very different. My priorities have changed\come into some alignment that is different from before. All relative I guess!
I remember thinking well, I’ll never ride in a car with anyone who isn’t an excellent driver again, or experiment with feel good stuff, or do basically anything that might put me in danger because there’s a tiny person depending on me now.
Also I did live the cliche of wondering how the heck to get a shower when it was just me and the baby at home, and I lived in my jammies for a bit longer than was really necessary.
But you mellow out with time. By the terrible twos she was eating the spilled cheerios off the driveway and I thought it was funny.
This one always makes me laugh. For the first few weeks my kids were here, I wouldn’t shower unless they were soundly asleep or my husband was home. This is somewhat reasonable with a baby.
However, when they arrived, they were 5 and 6.
(We have also chilled out. Sometimes they go outside to play and I don’t see them for hours.)