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It's that time when everyone's putting together their rankings, compilations, and wrappeds to summarize the year. So we decided to create something as well. And since we're always browsing the parenting side of Twitter/X, the choice was obvious.
Here, you will find the best takes moms and dads shared on the platform in 2025. From relatable confessions on burnout to funny exchanges with the little ones—we've got it all. The perfect representation of what it's like to raise kids.
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Manic Mama 2 weeks ago
I wonder how far a hit man would travel? Asking for a friend. A friend, who lives just near Brisbane ...
April Pickett 2 weeks ago
Were you learning a musical instrument when you were a kid? This is payback.
Crystalwitch60 2 weeks ago
😂😂priceless , although it kinda says this is payback for something lmao from a mum 😂
To give these tweets a little context, we can take a look at some numbers. A 2025 survey of 2,000 parents of kids ages 2–18 revealed that, on average, they find their child doing something funny or strange three times per day — or a little more than 1,000 funny moments per year.
However, those shenanigans are outweighed by an average of seven daily instances of chaos, with the most common forms being hiding things that don’t belong to them, such as car keys or the TV remote (31%), and going on adventures that take them out of their parents’ sight (30%).
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Mrs Irish Mom 2 weeks ago
Baby had to dumb it down for mammy and I bet there was an eyeroll aswel
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Crystalwitch60 2 weeks ago (edited)
Monkey chatter it’s a right pain at night , takes decades to learn how to shut it up , but I love his version of it , 😂tell him he can turn them off like he does on his tablet etc ,
But the challenges don’t stop there. When it comes to disagreements, the toughest issues for parents appear to be going to bed (46%), homework (38%), and getting out of bed (36%).
Arguments centered around food — such as what’s for dinner and clearing their plate — are also common for one in five parents (18%) and happen, on average, four times every week.
At the dinner table, the biggest “fight” parents encounter is over trying new foods (55%).
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Kitty 🥀 2 weeks ago
The teacher filled it in for them. That’s how they do it until the kid can write. 🙄
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Crystalwitch60 2 weeks ago
Out of the mouths of babes ! Oh and go have words with said teacher ,telling kids to lie is WRONG , ! A lies a lie no matter how you use it ,but this is hilarious ,
Andrew Keir 2 weeks ago
I'd suggest that, in a few circumstances, a lie is morally justified. The classic one being "Are there any Jews in this house?" answered by "no" even though you're hiding them in the roof-space. Or, at a car crash , when a deeply wounded passenger asks "Where's my husband?" you answer "he's already gone to hospital in the other ambulance" rather than "look under that tarpaulin there - and that one there - and I think his head is over there". Just occasionally, people actually can't handle the truth - at that moment.
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Deeelite 2 weeks ago
Some department stores don't have public bathrooms bc insurance won't cover it - it's not the cashier or store being a jerk. Source: worked at Family Dollar for 3 yrs in the 90s
Peter Bear 2 weeks ago
Doesn't matter, the same question (and the answers) still apply.
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Billo66 2 weeks ago
Doing my best to keep plastic out of the environment with 5,000 Coffee Mate buckets in my shed. lol
Mrs Irish Mom 2 weeks ago (edited)
I usually just put small bits of moisturiser in them and bring them to hotel or staying with family and if I forget the jar I still have my very dear cream at home so no big loss
Crystalwitch60 2 weeks ago
Actually if you have a garden , you can keep seeds in it. To sow the next year ! or buttons ,or well so many uses tbh
Parents estimate that they only win an average of 61% of their “battles” with their child, but they don’t sweat it too much — 83% say the most important thing is that their child is happy.
And at the end of a chaotic, shenanigan-filled day, 82% of parents believe there’s comedic relief in these imperfect moments.
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Laura Gillette 2 weeks ago
You have to admit, she was listening, she was clever, and she had a point.
Commenting on the survey’s results, licensed psychologist Nina Kaiser, PhD, said she was happy that parents are, more or less, rejecting the idyllic and embracing the real.
She explained, “When we isolate ourselves from other parents—or assume that we’re the only ones who are struggling with parenting—we’re much more likely to take parenting challenges personally and to experience feelings of shame and guilt, [which can lead to] difficulty regulating our emotions in our interactions with our kids.”
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Child of the Stars 2 weeks ago
At about the same age, my son (who did and still does love tomatoes) once announced that he was now a tomato named Mr. McGukett Pants.
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Kaiser added that when parents talk openly with others about how hard things can be, they often learn they’re not alone in their struggles.
"This allows us to take those moments of difficulty less personally and with more equanimity, in a way that allows us to feel less stressed and to actually parent more effectively," she said.
"If we feel confident in ourselves as parents, we're more likely to be consistent and effective with our kids. And we're also more likely to enjoy the parenting experience."
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And if we were to finish off our reflections on 2025 with some thoughts about the next year, many experts would like it to be about artificial intelligence.
"Parents can use AI more responsibly by using it as a search engine, not a therapist or parenting coach," said Emily Guarnotta, PsyD, PMH-C, a licensed clinical psychologist, certified perinatal mental health specialist, and founder of Phoenix Health.
"Use it to define specific terms, like, 'What is a sleep regression?' but not to diagnose. And be sure to cross-reference with other reliable sources, like your child's pediatrician."
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Laura Gillette 2 weeks ago
We don't celebrate easter, but someone posted somewhere that in their family, they color-code the eggs, so each kid gets a specific color basket, and can only look for eggs of that color. There are the same number of each color of eggs. And the younger kids' eggs are easier to find, but the older kids can't steal them, because those aren't THEIR eggs. I thought that was genius.
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Huddo's sister 2 weeks ago
Last time I took kids to the zoo they answered, the bin chickens (Ibis)
David Paterson 2 weeks ago
Australians go nuts over squirrels. Especially those running around from enclosure to enclosure in your zoo. Have you considered that your kids might be Australians?
Mark Childers 2 weeks ago
I, too, love those silly squirrels. But I'm a sucker for any animal. I was nearly drowned over the weekend by a friend's dog who really liked me and couldn't stop licking my face. She was a young, energetic Australian shepherd.
Laura Gillette 2 weeks ago (edited)
My favorite zoo story is that stray cat who went to go live with the capybaras and now the zookeepers take care of it, and the sign in front of their habitat says "capybaras and (cat's name)". I forget where that was, though.
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Andrew Keir 2 weeks ago
Too often, I wake up hearing the doorbell ring (often about 4 am). By the time I'm sufficiently awake to remember that we haven't had a doorbell for 20 years, sleep is a distant land. Do doorbells have ghosts ?
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Andrew Keir 2 weeks ago
In fairness, kids are stuck in a game they never asked to play, working out the rules for themselves despite the 'help' they get from the people on the sidelines who don't have to play their game, but are probably learning to play other games. Oh, and surrounded by other kids who think they've c*****d the game themselves.
AnSi Bae 2 weeks ago
Kids today absolutely have it worse, money wise, job wise, opportunity wise. GenX needs to decide if they had it bad with their boomer parents or the meme "we were kings" because they could play in puddles, drink from a garden hose and stay out until the streetlights turned on. They probably didn't get cyberbullied. They didn't have a full-time job, but still couldn't afford to move out from their parents. (Just my two cents as a GenX, we had it better then today)
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Billo66 2 weeks ago
I got a blue ribbon for my 7'th grade science project. I demonstrated how to manufacture anhydrous ammonia with ingredients from my chemistry set bought at sears. It was one of the experiments in the book. 1978'ish lol, Can you imagine.
Philly Bob 1 week ago
We had one of those Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab kits. Real radiation! Oh, and That Thingmaker from the Creepy Crawlies. Hot goop and uranium! Nice!
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It's moderately simple to get a high grade at a science Fair. Just don't be one of the groups trying to make explosives, and you'll be left with precious little opposition.
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Laura Gillette 2 weeks ago
I lost my tamagotchi in the 90s because I was twirling it around my finger from the attached key chain ring and we were riding in the car with the windows open and it flew out the window. I currently have a 4 year old child, though, and he seems to be doing ok.
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Lukas (he/him, it/its) 2 weeks ago
Typically school gyms don't have the same workout equipment as a regular gym- at least, not available to students outside of sports, in my experience.
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Andrew Keir 2 weeks ago
It's about the age when you realise that your cuddly baby now has agency outside of your wishes...
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Betty Spaghetti 2 weeks ago
You can’t accidentally aim lava in the wrong direction, though
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Bob Brooce 2 weeks ago
I guess they've never seen videos of people trying to deep fry turkeys for thanksgiving.
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Peter Bear 2 weeks ago
Any word is a swear word if you say it with the proper amount of invective. Learned that in several years of working for both major Florida theme parks (Mouse and also Not-Mouse).
Kit Black 2 weeks ago
I got written up at a sleepaway camp for saying ~Pop-tarts~ when a kid accidentally slammed the door on my finger... I'm like seriously??? When did that become a cuss word??? Director looked me dead in the eyes and says ~it's not what you said.It's the way you said it~
Load More Replies... Andrew Keir 2 weeks ago
Or learn to swear in a foreign language that isn't much heard in your country. Scots Gaelic is recommended - I'm told ...
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Child of the Stars 2 weeks ago
My niece is currently potty training. Every time she does her business in the toilet, she doesn't just announce it to the house, she seeks out each and every person in the house individually to tell them.
Laura Gillette 2 weeks ago
The first time mine peed in the toilet, I said, "I'm so proud of you, honey!" and he said, "I'm so proud of you too, Mommy!"
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SouthernGal 2 weeks ago
Two neighbors gave their kids really fast remote control cars. The kids are a bit too daring and sometimes dart the cars out across the path of an approaching car on a public road. I should start a betting pool based how many days it takes for each of the toy cars to become road k**l.
Andrew Keir 2 weeks ago
Give someone else's kid a drum set - if you hate them that much , and have an excellent lawyer
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Doodles1983 2 weeks ago
I managed to explain nose blowing early on with my nephews. Taught them to blow raspberries with lips. Then taught them to keep mouths closed and to try and blow raspberries out of their nose. It worked :)
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Sue User 2 weeks ago
I don't find this funny. Daughter is "crying wolf" ( using a real problem wrong ? Not sure if I am explaining properly) to get her way.
highwaycrossingfrog 2 weeks ago
Or she's repeating something that her parents say that she associates with a show being turned off.
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Lee Gilliland 2 weeks ago
We once found a couple of kids hiding from teacher in a German museum. She looked around, counted, looked around, counted, saw me holding up two fingers and pointing down, said "Max and Carl come down here NOW" and Max and Carl came. They probably still have no idea how she knew.
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Laura Gillette 2 weeks ago
This is like what finding out our parents didn't have a color TV as kids was like for us, I guess. (My parents had their kids very late in life. When my mom was a kid in the 50s, only one kid on her block had a tv, and that kid's mom would lean out of the door and call all the neighborhood kids in from playing outside when it was "Howdy Doody time". Very cute.)
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The Short Lady 2 weeks ago
I tell them it's the only way to get an intelligent conversation around here.
Mrs Irish Mom 2 weeks ago
My teenager and husband asks me all the time why im talking to myself, im talking to them, they just don't listen and now they think km loosing it
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James016 2 weeks ago
We were at my parent's house for Christmas with my sister and her family and my SIL. At some point after eating someone said that the lunch was lovely. My son piped up with "Lovely? I'll give you lovely." then let rip a very loud fart. He was cackling like a manic as he left the room. My son's spirit guide is Mr Rude from the Mr Men Show.
Drema Dixon 2 weeks ago (edited)
The other day my 11 year old referred to my s****y birth mom as my 'spawn point' and I laughed so much. That is what she will be called from now on 🤣
Serena Myers 2 weeks ago
Mostly made-up BS, but never mind, if X users find them entertaining, I am not arguing.
James016 2 weeks ago
We were at my parent's house for Christmas with my sister and her family and my SIL. At some point after eating someone said that the lunch was lovely. My son piped up with "Lovely? I'll give you lovely." then let rip a very loud fart. He was cackling like a manic as he left the room. My son's spirit guide is Mr Rude from the Mr Men Show.
Drema Dixon 2 weeks ago (edited)
The other day my 11 year old referred to my s****y birth mom as my 'spawn point' and I laughed so much. That is what she will be called from now on 🤣
Serena Myers 2 weeks ago
Mostly made-up BS, but never mind, if X users find them entertaining, I am not arguing.
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