then read the writing afterwards.
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Now, listen here, kid, you and me both were "brats" when we were babies!
So, appreciate your parents, understand??!!!
(Just kidding. ... Well, sort of.)
Anyway, just for an example of what your parents went through parenting you, loving you, and caring for you when you were a little one, read the following "cake recipe for moms with babies!!!"*****
How to bake a cake:
1. Preheat oven; get out utensils and ingredients.
2. Remove blocks and toy autos from table.
3. Grease pan, crack nuts.
4. Measure two cups of flour, remove baby's hands from flour, wash flour off baby, re-measure flour.
5. Put flour, baking power, and salt in sifter.
6. Get dustpan and brush up pieces of bowl baby knocked on the floor. Get another bowl
7. Answer doorbell
8. Return to kitchen, remove baby's hands from bowl. Wash baby.
9. Answer phone.
10. Return.
11. Remove one-fourth inch salt from greased pan. Look for baby.
12. Grease another pan.
13. Answer telephone.
14. Return to kitchen and find baby. Remove his hands from bowl.
15. Take up greased pan and find layer of nutshells in it. Head for baby, who flees, knocking bowl off table.
16. Return contents to bowl, mix and place in cooking pan.
17. Have baby watch you place cooking pan in 375 degree oven. While doing so, hold baby a safe distance from oven.
18. Give baby a bath, and change clothes.
19. Take cake from oven and let cool while changing baby's diaper.
20. Wash kitchen floor, table, walls, dishes.
21. Hold baby and feed baby very slowly until the baby grows bigger than you are and thinks he knows more than you do!!!
[Source of recipe unknown. Improvised by Jim Hogue, MA, MFT ]
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