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MOMMY YAP
Author presently unknown

  When you hear your child say
                   "Mommy" for the first time, 
                    your heart melts. 
                    That's because nobody tells
                    you that a child will say it 80,000
                    times a day. This is known as "Mommy Yap."
                    Mommy Yap goes into your ear, up to your
                    brain and makes your hands twitch. "Look
                    Mommy, Listen, Mommy, are you watching,
                    Mommy? Huh, Mommy? Look, Mommy!" They
                    are like a parrot on a pirate's shoulder.

                    And they would never think to ask Daddy for
                    one thing -- EVER! The child will step right over
                    Daddy, run up the stairs, jimmy open the
                    bathroom door, fling back the shower curtain,
                    hand naked Mommy a glass..."Mommy, can
                    you pour me a glass of milk?" Where's
                    Daddy?" I ask, while trying to cover myself.
                    "Daddy said he doesn't know where you keep
                    the milk."