How Grad School Prepared Me For Looking After a Baby

Odd as it may seem, there are some things that grad school has done well to prepare me for surviving my maternity leave.

Here are a few:

• I'm used to being home alone all day because I worked from home often as a student.  This is good, because it can certainly get lonely when you don't have as much contact with other adults.
• I have learned to understand what at first seems like a whole new language (cries and babbling from the baby, new ways of thinking in papers from a new field).
• I'm pretty good at having no structure forced on me and somehow managing to get things done.
• I'm also an expert at being interrupted by more important things. Students suddenly needing help, baby crying...practically the same thing, right? :)
• I have learned patience.  Lots and lots of patience.  In grad school it has been especially needed for that one paper I've tried to publish going on three times now.  I think it's obvious how it's useful with a 6 month old.
• Good things can take time (sometimes an awful lot of it), but it's all worth it in the end.

Do you have any others?