‘when your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it.
when your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: ‘fetch!’
*-bruce lansky
* Bruce Lansky is an American author and internationally known children’s poet, anthologist and is often called ‘the king giggles.’ He has a passion for getting children excited about reading and writing poetry. Lansky’s poetry books—including A Bad Case of the Giggles, Peter, Peter, Pizza-Eater, Mary Had a Little Jam, If Kids Ruled the School, and Rolling in the Aisles – are among America’s best-selling children’s poetry books. He is also the editor of the middle-grade fiction series Girls to the Rescue and Newfangled Fairy Tales. Lansky has performed in more than 300 schools from coast to coast and enjoys his quiet time at home in Maine.
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Lol! How true.
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Hahaha! 🤣🤣 So true! 👍
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I’ve lived it and so have my daughters. :-)
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So great 👍
Have a wonderful day! Your posts always make me smile. ☺️
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yes. i think i’d tremendously enjoy his children’s books 😅
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I’m sure you would, Kiki
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😂 True!
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❤️
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as you know, beth, i went through a brief period of children’s writing successfully getting published in the US, Australia and NZ. I don’t know this writer, Thanks :)
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I really think you’d like him and I’m still hoping you’ll post more of your writing
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So true 😁
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Okay, this was one of those genuine laugh out loud moments.😅
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Glad to hear it, Nigel. He does have a good way with seeing the lighter side of things.
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That’s been when dealing with kids.
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Oh yes!! I like his sense of humour.
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Glad to hear it, Darlene, coming from one writer to another.
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Frankie is always picking up lost baby socks and pacifiers on our walking track, Beth …
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SO TRUE! I have tow kids,a nd the first one you hold as if rare porcelain glass…the second is a rugby ball well used…but you love them both more than anything, its just you learn how to do it the first time so the second time you chill out a bit!
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The third baby will just have to use their thumb. 😂
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Ha! I guess the stuff left hanging on a tree belongs to the third kid. Hugs! 🤗
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I personally never understood why some people picked up the pacifier, put it in their mouth to clean it, then gave it back to the baby. Have you ever seen that? Or done that?😅
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Haha! Actually, the second one, I rinsed it, the third one he was on his own!
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Ah, yes…perspective. Delightful stuff.
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Ha! So true! :-D
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And when the third baby drops it, ‘whatever’
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