- Amnesia: condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have kids again.
- Defense: what you’d better have around the yard if you’re going to let the children play outside.
- Drooling: how teething babies wash their chins.
- Family Planning: the art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you from falling into financial disaster.
- Feedback: the inevitable result when a baby doesn’t appreciate the strained carrots.
- Full Name: what you call your child when you’re mad at him.
- Grandparents: the people who think your children are wonderful even though they’re sure you’re not raising them right.
- Hearsay: what toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.
- Independent: how we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say.
- Owww: the first word spoken by children with older siblings.
- Prepared Childbirth: a contradiction in terms.
*Puddle: a small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing dry shoes. - Sterilize: what you do to your first baby’s pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby’s pacifier by blowing on it.
- Store Room: the distance required between the supermarket aisles so that children in shopping carts can’t quite reach anything.
- Top Bunk: where you should never put a child wearing Superman jammies.
- Two-Minute Warning: when the baby’s face turns red and she begins to make those familiar grunting noises.


