Does anyone here have normal well behaved kids? I was positively angelic and boring by the sounds of things. 
Betcha you were not. These are normal kids we are talking about.
The problems with children are
(i) There is no training for the job ~ you pick it up as you go along.
(ii) Every child is different so it doesn't matter what you did with the previous one ... the same things will not work with the current one.
(iii) They are us, only younger and without experience.
(iv) They believe they are the first who ever did anything, thought any thought or encountered any situation.
(v) They do not realise that you were once a kid yourself.
(vi) They do not come with an operators manual nor a help desk number (unless you count your own parents whose reaction is usually to roll about laughing)
Honestly until the age of 19 when I dropped out of college the most worry I gave my parents was behaviour wise was being caught smoking. I didn't sneak out, set things on fire, get into trouble at school, have inappropriate boyfriends, cut myself, drink too much, have an eating disorder.
Trust us Wenchy ~ you gave them sleepless nights, you worried them silly when your temperature rose above 100F
You caused them to sit night after night arguing about what to do about new clothes, the rate at which you were/or were not growing. The children you mixed with at school, why you hadn't been invited to so & so's party, your refusal to eat something, the rash on your tummy, the car sickness if you sat in the back, whether they could risk letting you go to France with the school. The list is endless and some items may not apply to you specifically as all children are different but the problems are pretty much the same.
