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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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Mrs Irish Mom 1 day ago
Baby had to dumb it down for mammy and I bet there was an eyeroll aswel
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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Manic Mama 2 days ago
I wonder how far a hit man would travel? Asking for a friend. A friend, who lives just near Brisbane ...
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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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.
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.”
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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AnSi Bae 2 hours 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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Laura Gillette 11 hours 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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Laura Gillette 11 hours 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.
#33
Peter Bear 1 day 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).
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Lee Gilliland 1 day 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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SouthernGal 1 day 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.
#41
Doodles1983 2 days 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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Child of the Stars 1 day 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.
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Laura Gillette 10 hours 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.)
#45
The Short Lady 1 day ago
I tell them it's the only way to get an intelligent conversation around here.
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James016 2 days 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Mostly made-up BS, but never mind, if X users find them entertaining, I am not arguing.
James016 2 days 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Mostly made-up BS, but never mind, if X users find them entertaining, I am not arguing.
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