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Everyone is a parenting expert until they have kids – right? I certainly thought I knew what to expect. I imagined that I would take to motherhood like a duck to water, that I’d morph in to the perfect mum (part Play School presenter, part Maria Von Trap) and that my children would be little angels.

Of course, like many others before me I had to learn a few things the hard way. Here are some of the ridiculous things I thought I knew about parenting.

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