I think they leave out a lot of what is actually involved in raising children. You know, projectiles, messes you thought were physically impossible to create, cheerios everywhere (even inside your computer), holes in the wall, breaking up fights involving power tools, stuff being thrown up at a ceiling fan creating a radial debris field, molding bowls of food found in cabinets, half hour arguments over the virtues of changing clothes or washing faces, THE most stupid cartoons in the universe (spongebob), etc. etc.