Job description: 24/7 nurturer, care giver, succorer, magician, playmate, disciplinary figure and educator
Minimum qualifications:
- Unlimited patience
- Unconditional love
- The ability to operate on minimal amounts of sleep. Always.
- A vast imagination
- Stamina against negative criticism and acceptance of positive criticism.
- Food handling and nutrition qualifications
- Physical fitness, despite malnutrition and lack of traditional exercise
- Astute listening/interpretive skills, especially in foreign languages (ie toddler, baby and screeching)
- Knowledge in the proper procedure for the removal of bodily fluids (and feces) from all household items, as well as hair, skin and clothing
- Car seat mechanic
- Physical strength: must be able to lift and carry at least 50 (flailing) pounds several blocks
- Mediating
- Juggling
- Balancing
- Never-ending supply of positive reinforcements
- Ability to shower and prepare for the day in under 15 minutes
- Complete control over your own temper
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent budgeting skills
- Empathy
- Forgiveness
- An excellent sense of humor
- Must be willing to work graveyards, weekends, holidays and on-call.
- Singing, drawing and dancing
- Therapeutic massage
- Sewing
- Selective deafness
- Hypnosis
- Speech therapy
- Psychology
- Plumbing
- Intuition
- Martial arts/self defense
- Indifference to seeming higher qualifications of other moms
- Detective work
- Extra arms (and we don't mean weapons)
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