A handy checklist to see if you are raising the spawn of Satan. Has your five-months-and-one-day-old baby:

1. Kicked you in the nuts?
2. Kicked you in the chin?
3. Twisted your beard until you screamed?
4. Backhanded you across the mouth?
5. Backhanded you in the nose?
6. Punched you in the Adam’s Apple?
7. Scratched your neck?
8. Scratched your forehead?
9. Used your ears as leverage to pull herself to her feet?
10. Crushed your bottom lip in her meaty little hand while trying to ram her other fist down your throat?
11. Shoved her fingers up your nostrils?
12. Pulled off your glasses?
13. Palm punched you repeatedly in the eyes?
14. Tried to bite your head?
15. Screamed when you tried to feed her?
16. Screamed when you hugged her?
17. Screamed when you put her down?
18. Screamed on her front?
19. Screamed on her back?
20. Screamed non-stop right in your face?
21. Thrown up pureed apple and banana down your shirt?
22. Thrown up pureed apple and banana down your vest?
23. Thrown up pureed apple and banana down your bare chest?
24. Pulled out a handful of chest hair?
25. Tugged on your armpit hair until your eyes watered?
26. Spat on you?
27. Sneezed on you?
28. Done a pile of liquid yellow-green poo thirty seconds after you changed her nappy?
29. Laughed uproariously as you tried to change her again while she kicked you and hit you?
30. Shrieked like a banshee as you tried to put her sleepsuit back on while she kicked you and hit you?
31. Stood up unassisted against the sofa for the first time?
32. All of the above in the space of two hours this evening?

If the answer to all the above questions is yes, you may very well be raising the offspring of Beelzebub a.k.a. a teething baby.

To assist parents like us, I have set up a support group named Demon Dads Anonymous. Call me on 1-800-I-need-an-exorcist and we can help each other! Or we use more teething gel, yes, more teething gel, now.