Becoming a parent can be the most wonderful moment in a person's life. Being a parent can be a person's calling in life.

Embracing parenthood can be the most difficult thing in modern life because of three unbelievably annoying things.

                   

1. Car Seats

Those infant and toddler seats with their ever-tangling and twisting straps can zap any parent of all their patience and zest. And the seats for older kids? Really? I can't believe they are even necessary, but now they are for sale—in the name of safety! Shouldn't we wrap the kids in bubble wrap too? Wouldn't that protect them?

2. Bike Helmets

First of all, how did I survive with all the biking I did as a kid? Second, who designed bike helmets to be the most ridiculous hard hat on earth? Way to ruin biking forever.

3. Other Parents

Let's be honest: part of the reason we buy into things like car seats and bike helmets is because other parents judge. Judgedy-judge judge. Some other parents even stir up ideas like bike helmets so they can seem like awesome parents—not seeing the bigger picture, which is that they are unbearably annoying and ruining parenting for everyone.

Other than that, of course, being a parent is super fantastic. Well, if I had to add a fourth item to this list, it might be whining. Parents are the #1 group whined to, 800 years running.

                  


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