New research of parents reveals as many as 85 per cent laugh about the sort of parent they thought they would be. A further 81 percent claim it is simply impossible to know just how hard being a parent is until you’ve had kids yourself.
Top of the list of preconceptions, with 47 percent of the vote, was the intention to always limit screen time. And 33 percent of the 2,000 British parents polled thought they would never bribe their children to be good, no matter how naughty they were being, only to find themselves giving in and doing deals with their kids to keep them at bay.
Other pre-baby vows that ended up being broken included never raising their voice to their child (39 percent), never using a tablet as a babysitter (34 percent), never bribing their kids to be good (33 percent), reading to them every single night (32 percent) and never allowing their little ones to sleep in their bed (29 percent).
