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<p>There is absolutely no sure fire way to prepare for parenting. You could babysit for years, get a degree in childhood education, take on aunt or uncle duties, and devour all of the books available, but nothing can compete with getting your hands dirty raising your own kids.</p><p>Still, despite the fact that parenting is the type of experience nothing can prepare you for, there are plenty of people out in the world ready to dole out well-meaning advice about how you can know if you&#39;re &quot;ready&quot; to have kids.</p><h2>As a way of satirizing the endless abyss of advice, the popular blogger Laura Mazza made a (now viral) post laying out just how to prepare yourself for parenthood.</h2><oembed>https://www.facebook.com/themumontherun/posts/2690953590972602</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>She wrote:</p><blockquote> <p>How to prepare for children:</p> <p>Buy bananas, buy five f*cking bunches. Eat them all. Whatever. Just make them disappear in a day.<br /> Then buy more bananas the next day. The same amount if not more...and watch them go mouldy. Slowly. Say out loud &ldquo;why doesn&rsquo;t anyone want the bananas now?&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Cry.</p> <p>Play baby shark on repeat for 68 hours.<br /> Every time you pick up a phone, ask someone to ask you &ldquo;can you play baby shark?&rdquo;</p> <h2>Watch obscure things on YouTube like freaky cartoons with catchy songs in between baby shark. Always go back to baby shark.</h2> </blockquote><h2>Her advice included letting a bull free in a supermarket, playing baby shark for days straight while crying, alternating four wrecked pairs of underwear, and Facetiming friends while you&#39;re on the toilet.</h2><blockquote> <p>Bring a bull into a supermarket with you. Let it go and apologise to people as it runs pass them, bucking. &ldquo;He gets angry when not fed and hates movement&rdquo;</p> <p>Buy 4 pairs of huge underwear that come up to your neck, poke holes in them, wear them interchangeably</p> <p>Ask your whole street for their washing, and begin doing their laundry. Ask them to wear and dirty it as soon as it&rsquo;s folded.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Bite all the apples in your fruit bowl and put them back.</p> <p>Clean the house, disinfect it, then smear yoghurt on the floor</p> <p>Ask someone to cough in your eyeball.</p> <p>Poo with the door open. FaceTime your friends and get them to ask you about your day while you strain.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Cover yourself in sour milk.</p> <p>Try to unwrap a lollipop in 3 seconds flat. Set a loud timer that screams at you if you fail.</p> <p>Buckle up an octopus in a car seat.</p> <p>Get three monkeys and drive around with them. Give them popcorn and honey.</p> <p>Make a snack every 7 minutes.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Go to bed</p> <p>Get up again</p> <p>Go back</p> <p>Get up... go back, get up, go back, get up. Smash your toe into something really hard.</p> <p>Pee yourself.</p> <p>And now you&rsquo;re 10% ready.</p> </blockquote><h2>Her post inspired a comment thread full of moms echoing just how many basic tasks transform into a circus when you have kids.</h2><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Facebook" data-attribution-url="https://www.facebook.com/themumontherun/posts/2690953590972602" height="246" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/katie-ORh6FH.jpg" width="700" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/themumontherun/posts/2690953590972602">Facebook</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Facebook" data-attribution-url="https://www.facebook.com/themumontherun/posts/2690953590972602" height="744" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/sarah-sqz9Xe.jpg" width="700" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/themumontherun/posts/2690953590972602">Facebook</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Facebook" data-attribution-url="https://www.facebook.com/themumontherun/posts/2690953590972602" height="280" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/tia-Plya7z.jpg" width="700" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/themumontherun/posts/2690953590972602">Facebook</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The moral of the story?! Parenting is tough as hell and jumping in is the only way to find out if you can handle it.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Mom makes funny list of ways to prepare for parenthood: 'smear yogurt on the floor.'

There is absolutely no sure fire way to prepare for parenting. You could babysit for years, get a degree in childhood education, take on aunt or uncle duties, and devour all of the books available, but nothing can compete with getting your hands dirty raising your own kids.Still, despite the fact that parenting is the type of experience nothing can prepare you for, there are plenty of people out in the world ready to dole out well-meaning advice about how you can know if you&#39;re &quot;ready&quot; to have kids.As a way of satirizing the endless abyss of advice, the popular blogger Laura Mazza made a (now viral) post laying out just how to prepare yourself for parenthood.https://www.facebook.com/themumontherun/posts/2690953590972602She wrote: How to prepare for children: Buy bananas, buy five f*cking bunches. Eat them all. Whatever. Just make them disappear in a day. Then buy more bananas the next day. The same amount if not more...and watch them go mouldy. Slowly. Say out loud &ldquo;why doesn&rsquo;t anyone want the bananas now?&rdquo;  Cry. Play baby shark on repeat for 68 hours. Every time you pick up a phone, ask someone to ask you &ldquo;can you play baby shark?&rdquo; Watch obscure things on YouTube like freaky cartoons with catchy songs in between baby shark. Always go back to baby shark. Her advice included letting a bull free in a supermarket, playing baby shark for days straight while crying, alternating four wrecked pairs of underwear, and Facetiming friends while you&#39;re on the toilet. Bring a bull into a supermarket with you. Let it go and apologise to people as it runs pass them, bucking. &ldquo;He gets angry when not fed and hates movement&rdquo; Buy 4 pairs of huge underwear that come up to your neck, poke holes in them, wear them interchangeably Ask your whole street for their washing, and begin doing their laundry. Ask them to wear and dirty it as soon as it&rsquo;s folded.  Bite all the apples in your fruit bowl and put them back. Clean the house, disinfect it, then smear yoghurt on the floor Ask someone to cough in your eyeball. Poo with the door open. FaceTime your friends and get them to ask you about your day while you strain.  Cover yourself in sour milk. Try to unwrap a lollipop in 3 seconds flat. Set a loud timer that screams at you if you fail. Buckle up an octopus in a car seat. Get three monkeys and drive around with them. Give them popcorn and honey. Make a snack every 7 minutes.  Go to bed Get up again Go back Get up... go back, get up, go back, get up. Smash your toe into something really hard. Pee yourself. And now you&rsquo;re 10% ready. Her post inspired a comment thread full of moms echoing just how many basic tasks transform into a circus when you have kids.  Facebook  Facebook   FacebookThe moral of the story?! Parenting is tough as hell and jumping in is the only way to find out if you can handle it.