The Hidden Costs of Parenting

You only get to realise this when you plunge into the deep dark treacherous waters of parenting. You naively assumed that parenting is expensive because of diapers and childcare fees, but little did you expect that other costs pile up as quickly as vultures descending upon a carcass?

This morning, my son declared me to be a superhero with respect to the claw machine and summoned me to catch a squirrel. I failed miserably. $2 gone. Then, it would be the Mid-Autumn Festival next week. Of course, both kids wanted their own lantern. $9.85 gone. You would think that my girl would be grateful for my generosity, but NO! she wanted to sit in her favourite rocking submarine. Another $2 gone. But I guess I need to count my blessings. While my girl was swaying rhythmically in the vessel, my wife took my boy to the gachapon machine, where he would acquire yet another useless animal figurine. I consider it a calamity averted because the money wasn’t going to disappear from my wallet forced to undergo intermittent fasting.

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