Being a parent brings unexpected surprises everyday. From sudden unexpected talent show appearances to their hilarious locker decor and expert roasting quips, kids are always keeping parents on their toes. And their antics have required a number of unhinged parenting sentences to be uttered. In an online parenting community, member @Plomaster69 posed the question to fellow parents: “What’s a sentence you never thought you’d say until you had kids?”

They went on to explain, “‘Please stop licking the shopping cart.’ I said this to my 4-year-old at Target last week and had to pause for a moment. Like, where do you even begin with that conversation? How did we get to a point where I needed to explain why metal shopping cart handles aren’t meant to be tasted?”

Not the parenting they expected

It’s a conversation that they anticipated many other parents have had to have with their kids. “Before kids, I thought parenting would be about teaching important life lessons and having meaningful conversations. Instead, I spend my days saying things like ‘we don’t put PlayDoh in our ears’ and ‘the dog’s food is not people food’ and........

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