1. Having to wake up at 6am to make school lunches.
2. The day you have a hangover will certainly be the day that the kids want to play one-on-one basketball for three hours.
3. School holidays are the worst.
4. No. Snow days are the worst.
5. There is always so much laundry. How do such small people make so much laundry?
6. And you know that the kids will always want to wear that one shirt at the bottom of the dirty clothes basket.
7. If you're a live-in nanny, you can't escape the noise even on your days off.
8. You're probably very underpaid.
9. The amount of secret handshakes and clapping games you need to remember is ridiculous.
10. Stepping on LEGO.
11. "You can't tell me what to do, you're not even my real mum."
12. The Wizards of Waverly Place theme song haunts your dreams.
13. And you know every Disney Channel Original Movie off by heart.
14. Afternoons are spent driving from school to soccer to ballet to home and back to soccer then to swimming then to the store then back home.
15. You have to care for family pets who hate you.
16. Your diet is 90% fish fingers.
17. Your fear of the dark is quickly tested when you have to check for cupboard monsters.
18. Third grade homework is way more difficult than you remember.
19. Having to field kids' questions which really should be answered by their parents.
20. The kitchen constantly needs to be cleaned.
21. You start listening to 1D even when you're not with the kids.
22. The mum asks you to run her personal errands.
23. You have to tell kids that ice cream is not a breakfast food though it goes against everything you believe in.
24. "I want spaghetti bolognese but with no meat and no pasta and no cheese."
25. Braiding hair is difficult on an adult, let alone on a tiny child.
26. People compliment you on having beautiful kids. Um hello I'm 20 and he's ten.
27. You live in constant fear of the nanny-cam.
28. But really, the biggest problem is knowing you'll never be as fierce a nanny as Fran Fine.
