kids Things You Spend the Most Time Doing as a Parent
When you read the parenting books before your first kid arrives, there are a lot of things you are simply unprepared for. Sure, the diaper-changing and the constructive playtime are all covered, you think you got that shit down. But when the kid has been around for a while, you slowly start to realize that you are spending most of your parenting time doing things that no book warned you about. Vote up the stuff you spend the most time doing, and make sure to add any missing things.
list ordered by
1 225 27 
Laundry
2 160 38 
Explaining "Why"
3 154 42 
Daydreaming of bedtime
4 156 49 
Eating whatever the kids didn't eat
5 152 49 
Looking for shoes
6 139 44 
Andrés Mauricio Moreno Zopó added Goofing Around and Having a Good Time
7 146 50 
Futilely organizing the playroom toys
8 120 37 
Shouting at the back seat of your car
9 130 45 
Secretly eating your kids' Halloween candy
10 122 46 
Chauffeuring
11 109 42 
Arguing about bath/shower time
12 121 55 
Reading the same book over and over
13 111 56 
Ordering out instead of cooking
14 104 52 
stepping on legos in bare feet
15 98 48 
Questioning childrens' clothing decisions
16 26 9 
Jeff Korhorn added Feeling Guilty for Staring at Your Screen Instead of Engaging Them.
17 71 70 
Looking for a hidden place to nap
18 74 78 
Drinking
19 63 74 
Learning Dinosaur Names
20 58 70 
Washing crayon off the walls
21 52 66 
Making bag lunches that won't be touched
22 57 73 
Going to a 100 Million birthday parties
23 49 70 
Pulling tiny plastic toys out of the vacuum
24 35 82 
Cutting food into shapes for some reason
25 29 85 
Watching a lot of soccer matches
