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The dads of Twitter have some of the funniest stories and belly-aching jokes to share with us from their everyday family lives. So we here at Bored Panda thought it’d be the perfect way to brighten up your day. You’re bound to relate to a lot of these parenting posts if you’re raising any munchkins of your own at home. Don’t worry, you’re not alone!

Psst, after you’re done scrolling through this list and upvoting your fave dad tweets, check out our earlier posts about hilarious fatherhood tweets right here.

Bored Panda wanted to learn more about being a dad and the challenges that it presents, so we reached out to the Fatherhood Institute, the UK's fatherhood think-and-do-tank and one of the most respected fatherhood organizations on Earth. Dr. Jeremy Davies told us that what children need more than anything is your time. "And time can be hard to find, if you’re focused on earning money—which is part of what you need to do as a parent, but only part of it. So finding time when you’re out at work is the biggest challenge," he said. Read on for the rest of Dr. Davies' insights.

According to Dr. Davies from the Fatherhood Institute, the trick for new dads is to find ways of organizing their lives so they get to do "a good chunk of the hands-on caring" early on. "If that’s tough because of the job you do, maybe there are ways you can tweak your working week to free up more time? If not, and that feels like a problem, maybe you need to think about a different career?" the expert mused.

He advised new dads to get "stuck in" and help out with the childcare. "Don’t hang back like she’s the boss," he said. "Men are biologically primed to look after children, just like women are, and practice makes perfect. If mum seems better at this stuff, it’s almost certainly because she does more of it. The more you do the better you get."

So if you want to get better at changing nappies, bathing your child, putting them to bed, singing to them, and reading bedtime stories, you have to carve out the time to do so. There are no shortcuts. "That’s how you’ll build the bond with your baby, and from that you’ll build a wonderful, lifelong relationship with him/her."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How dare you make the bath too wet? How is the poor kid supposed to enjoy it?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope, parents can install themselves as voices in your head so you have to listen to them FOREVER. Checkmate, toddler.

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Fatherhood is absolutely a blessing. But there’s no easy way to say this—your life will change. For the better, of course. But there will be plenty of new challenges. Financial, for starters. However, something as simple as getting enough sleep or alone time with your partner might just quickly become your number one priority. That’s why you’ve got to learn to use every moment that your children are asleep or out of the house. Life doesn’t have to stop when you’re a dad; but you’ll have to adapt.

Even though we like to think of our dads as superheroes who can do anything, they’re as human as anyone else. And fatherhood isn’t done in isolation: you have to know how to work as a team.

Coming up with a system where dads share the responsibilities of caring for their kids with their partners by taking turns means everyone can get some much-deserved rest. And once you've made childcare a part of your daily routine, it's way easier on you because it's now a habit.

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Dads also have to learn to reach out and ask for help when they’re struggling. Ask your family members, your grandparents, your friends, and coworkers to babysit once in a while so you can recharge if you have to.

Parenting’s a marathon, not a sprint. And, even though we might feel alone and utterly knackered sometimes, it really does take a whole village to raise a child, so we need to learn to be humble and ask for support.

Once you’re recharged and amped up about parenting after some R&R, you can go back to being the best dad that you can be. Playing with Legos? Check. Reading bedtime stories that you’re enjoying as much (if not more) than your kid? Check. Monkeying about on the monkey bars in the playground? Check. Fighting the monster hiding under your kid’s bed? Check!

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha, love the dad joke but that aside, burial pods sound like a great idea.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy taught me that space is big. Like really really big.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But the thing with that is that people who hate kids, and wouldn't help teach at all would decide to be a teacher to get that big pay check.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a video of my daughter going through my underwear drawer and putting on about 20 or so pairs all over herself including around her neck like a necklace and on her head lol.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It says a real one like dad pranked them and got them a fake one last time

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought the second part starts when you can leave your children alone at home without worrying about them dying

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eh sometimes it isnt so much growing up as developing undiagnosed mental illnesses, ask me how i know

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well just get into the time machine in every classroom and make it the old days

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It really is terrible of today's children not to automatically know everything about technology that they have never used or even seen.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but wouldnt it be easy... i would just play mind tricks on them and then let them do wht they want... ill make sure they will think alot abt what i say before they do anything dumb! hahahhaaa.... then again, i have other plans for life xD

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What age is this most effective on? I dont remember my parents doing this with us

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, you *can* do whatever you want once you're an adult, but you also get to deal with the consequences.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oompa Loompa do-be-de-do, you should listen to what your dad tells you.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this happened to me when my cousins came over two weeks ago, but it was in german

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me: says nothing while playing back recording of conversation from twenty minutes ago.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The phrase, "Be good to your kids; they choose your nursing home." comes to mind.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me to my kids, after they hide their backpack as a prank. Guess who started with pranks first.?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure why dad was confused. Ghosts of my feet = shadows. Obvi.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Child: *hugs parent*. Parent: what have you broken, what have you lost, what do you want me to do, and no, we can't have chocolate cake for lunch.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why I see solo parents in pajamas and robe at ASDA at 2am. Stealth shopping

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 2020 the kid is right. "Not true! It's... May? August? April? ... I'm sure..."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe she was saying 'whine whine whine', because that's what she was doing? Idk anymore

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She's a cockapoo. I'm twelve, but I have a sister. Who likes paw patrol. And making my life a misery. She's cute tho, I'll give her that.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My son starting crying yesterday when I said, for the eleventy hundredth time, "hi hungry, I'm daddy".

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even works when the "child" is furry. My dog trapped my brother in his seat in a hire van. However well I wrapped her in her blanket, she still managed to have the release right up her bum when it came time to leave the vehicle

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was how my brother and I were! One time I duct taped pillows to my younger brother and then punched his stomach (lightly as I was weak) Then he got to do it to me!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I should do this to stop both of them from coming to my bed in the middle of the night.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She's ready for life. She not gonna have problems finding excuses for work or not meeting friends.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A degree in history can lead to a really great career as a history professor.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can drive better than that with a dually truck in a forest and I'm eleven(just don't rely on soft stops :))

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's good to start with testing as early as possible. Later you may go out of control

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aged 5 I could pick up my 10 stone mum. By 7 I could swing her round.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Parents used to take us to Stonehenge, Old Sarum (iron age? fort) and similar places. They could set up a picnic in the middle and let us run round and round , hoping we would get tired. No picnicking on the stones now, or parking inside the fort. They only had to watch us if one or more of us stopped making noise

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sod that. I have no kids precicely because I know it's really hard.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But why always 3 times in a row and into the sink (over the clean washing up)?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got told that my pictures were good when I was little. While they were being put in the recycling bin. Hey, at least my parents recycle. They're good tho, not mean.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As long as she hasn't mastered the art of delayed procrastination you have nothing to fear.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wish that was the case for my kids, well my son now as my daughter has calmed down a bit since becoming a teen. My son is on the go from as soon as he wakes up until he zonks out at bed, doesn’t matter what he eats. Even his therapists and my mum have mentioned that he just does not stop. I wish I had some of his energy.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read that to the tune of Frozen's "do you wanna build a snowmaaaan?" 😄

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had imaginary pets. I even took mine to school so I didn't have to play with the other kids. Did get myself a pet rock that has been a faithful door stop for 35 years.

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