{"id":4851,"date":"2012-01-25T09:53:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T09:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:04:12","slug":"tune-in-to-the-kidstart-parent-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/tune-in-to-the-kidstart-parent-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tune In To The KidStart Parent Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t know about you but during my twenties I was broody for a long time. I loved the look of babies, cuddling them and wandering in and out of BabyGap (yes, sad I know).Then my best friend had a baby and very quickly I went off the idea. I don\u2019t know if it was the moment poo exploded out of her daughter\u2019s nappy or the fact my friend seemed to cry a lot but suddenly I wasn\u2019t broody any more.\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n\nNow I\u2019m a mother of two, I just love the idea of the\u00a0KidStart Parent Challenge<\/a>, which is starting tomorrow. KidStart have challenged two of their baby-free twenty-something recruits to look after 2 Realityworks RealCare babies for 5 days. Aside from the fact I am sure it will be amusing I think it\u2019s a great way to show someone without kids what living with a baby is really like.\n\nJames (father to baby \u2018Will\u2019) and Jo (mother to baby \u2018Kate\u2019) will have to figure out whether their baby needs feeding, burping, rocking or changing. So in reality that means 5 days of being woken up at night, 5 days of feeding, changing and constant crying (and you can’t switch these babies off as they have mini computers in them keeping track of everything). Not to mention 5 days of having to commute to work in public with the ‘baby’ in tow.\n\nTo see how they fare I\u2019m definitely going to tune-in on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and via their daily diaries<\/a> and vote for who I think is doing the best. KidStart also want us parents to offer them our best parenting tips so here are mine:\n