Baby, you’re tough

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The next time someone calls you a baby to make fun, take it as a compliment.

While the kid was crying in his car seat on a recent road trip, I realized that babies are warriors. How would your outlook on life be if you suffered experiences traumatic enough to reduce you to tears a dozen times a day?

As a baby, these are some of the hard times you’d face every day. You might

• Have your fingers smashed in doors and under rocking chairs
• Dook in your pants, sometimes resulting in a burning rash back there
• Be plopped into the not-as-fun-as-it-sounds “Pack-and-Play” while Mum treats herself to a shower
• Knock your head on coffee tables, walls, and hard floors
• Wait just too long for someone to give you some stinkin’ Cheerios
• Be doused with water and scrubbed when you don’t feel like it
• Have doors slammed in your face for the rooms that aren’t so-called “baby-proofed”
• Put something attractive in your mouth, only to get your cheeks squeezed and jaw forced open to extract it
• Wear fireman, baseball, or sailor outfits when you all you want to be is a systems analyst
• Have hard, sharp teeth forcing their way through your tender gums
• Be told to sleep when you haven’t accomplished everything you planned for the day

Yet, babies generally have bright and cheery countenances. The boy is certainly one happy, smiley, laughy guy. This is all by God’s grace, of course.

So, don’t underestimate those small bundles of joy. No matter how hard your day was, they’ve probably had worse. And they still laugh when you blow fart noises on their tummy.

(photo: FlawlessWalrus)

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