Mother's Day is a heartfelt celebration of the incredible women who have selflessly devoted their lives to nurturing and guiding their children. So, to celebrate it, Bored Panda has gathered a collection of the best mom tweets that we could find.
From relatable tales of sleep deprivation to funny critiques of absurd toddler logic, these anecdotes perfectly highlight how humor can tremendously help parents in their everyday lives. It's a universal language that brings people together and provides a much-needed respite from our challenges. So, sit back, continue scrolling, and enjoy the laughter and camaraderie these tweets bring. Happy Mother's Day!
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Best advice I ever saw.... Sleep when your baby sleeps. Fold laundry when your baby folds laundry
Did that when they were babies. But I still need some me-time
Load More Replies...Srsly?! Wow, you did better than me!! That was my time to wash dishes, do laundry, pick up the toys, housework, housework, housework, etc etc..... I haven't belonged to myself until this year, and that's only because my daughter is in her second year of college in another state!
This is kinda sad :( sending love to all the hardworking mom's out there
I know you're lying because it was more like 60 tacos
Load More Replies...Makes me think of that fake self-help book photoshop which was called "How To Get What You Want Through The Art of Lying". "Didn't graduate from college? Sure ya did! Criminal history? Not any more!"
George Santos in disguise? That's right, he's also a stay home mother who is a former chef.
People trace back celebrations of mothers and motherhood to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who held festivals in honor of the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele, but the modern precedent for Mother’s Day is often thought to be the early Christian festival known as Mothering Sunday.
Once a major tradition in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe, this celebration fell on the fourth Sunday in Lent and was originally viewed as a time when the faithful would return to their “mother church”—the main church in the vicinity of their home—for a special service.
Awww. My grandpa used to be a 64-year old Jewish man. I wish I would have spent more time with him when he was alive.
Me looking at my eggs Benedict, pancakes and bacon - “yeah it’s casserole, you’d hate it.”
I never had a problem letting my kids eat the homemade leftover peach pie for breakfast. It was probably better for them than the "fruit" pancakes at the diner.
Me: What are you eating for breakfast? Son:*puts hand behind back and runs out of the room*
That's genius, I will remember and definitely use this in the future!!!
i will now call Pie 'fruit casserole' and i can eat it on my diet.
I remember the first time that happened to me and I started panicking that my skin was peeling off and that I was going to be skinless for the rest of my life. My Dad didn’t help when he acted serious about going to the doctor and putting a cast on my hand . 🙃
I told mine my iPad was dirt and a stick.... they asked how long a charge lasted!
I remember for Christmas,I got Pong. The very first video game. With the five of us kids, it didn't take long to wear it out. But we had fun. And the Sony TV ,we had, lasted for 15 years, before it had to be replaced.
Then adding the peels to a ball of peels to see who could get the biggest one until the teacher took it away.
The origins of Mother's Day as celebrated in the US date back to the 19th century. Before the Civil War, Ann Reeves Jarvis of West Virginia helped start “Mothers’ Day Work Clubs" to teach local women how to properly care for their children.
These clubs later became a unifying force in a region of the country still divided over the Civil War, and in 1868, Jarvis organized “Mothers’ Friendship Day,” at which mothers gathered with former Union and Confederate soldiers to promote reconciliation.
My siblings and I could never keep our doors locked growing up because all three of us picked the locks! It got to a point where if you really wanted the door to stay shut you had to put something in front of it.
Same, my brother is an entitled little s**t and when he wants to use the bathroom, even if I’m already in there, he picks the lock and demands I leave 😌
Load More Replies...The one that locked you out. Kids will always figure out how to get into things they shouldn’t. I’ve been picking locks for as long as I can remember lol
I think your kids are trying to be some kind of escape room artist or maybe a locksmith.
Just received a card that reads, "Good moms drive their kids everywhere... Great moms pick them up again later"
This is awesome!! And so true. I would let the moms drop their kids off at my house for play dates or sleepovers, but I always drove from them home afterwards - otherwise we would be waiting and waiting and waiting for the parents who would show up to, three, four hours late!
Load More Replies...Wow the people who didn't let you are so mean. I would sue them for 989,894,973 dollars since they are SO mean.
Never,ever take your children to your ice cream shop. Always take them to a different place. Never mix your business and pleasure. LoL
I tell my kid I'm going on "errands" and they never want to come. Often the errand is eating frozen yogurt by myself in peace.
Are your ice cream parlors not serving coffee? Ours are little cafes where you can get at least coffee, sometimes even cake too. So you could have just said to the kids that you get your coffee there. (Except if you don‘t drink coffee and your kids know that, like me)
If it's so boring why do you even make yourself going to church?
It’s called religious guilt. Thankfully I don’t have that gene. Some people still think that because their parents made them go to church they should make their own children suffer too. Even though they still dread it themselves. I don’t understand how you can make your children do something you didn’t like when you were their age. Except school obviously.
Load More Replies...LOL. Good answer. Welcome to being Catholic. Bring friends and they always ask about kneel, sit, stand, pray, kneel, sit, stand pray. Just follow everyone else.
Not in my Church. My pastor is loud, we the congregation, are just as loud in response. We love giving him a hard time. He has a great sense of humor.
Age 14, I was a confirmed Lutheran, able to take communion. Sunday morning, empty stomach, and a minister who would fill my mouth with muscatel. I'd walk back to the pew with a nice buzz going.
Another precursor to Mother’s Day came from the abolitionist and suffragette Julia Ward Howe. In 1870, Howe wrote the “Mother’s Day Proclamation,” a call to action that asked mothers to unite in promoting world peace. In 1873, Howe campaigned for a “Mother’s Peace Day” to be celebrated every June 2nd.
Other early Mother’s Day pioneers include Juliet Calhoun Blakely, a temperance activist who inspired a local Mother’s Day in Albion, Michigan, in the 1870s. The duo of Mary Towles Sasseen and Frank Hering, meanwhile, both worked to organize a Mothers’ Day in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some have even referred to Hering as “the father of Mothers’ Day.”
Maybe what he meant was safe meditating but when asked: Nah, ma helmet stays (ste) on while I go "uhhmmmmm"... XD
Standard meditation technique. He learnt meditation from a Hindu friend. Namaste just means "respect" in Hindi.
Not if you're sitting next to him in a restaurant.
Load More Replies...My favorite one is when I finally ask "WHAT!" and they say, "oh, nothing. I was just making sure you could hear me." smh
Whenever my kid yells MAMA I immediately start singing Bohemian Rhapsody which pretty much nips this type of situation in the bud.
My mothers ringtone is from Family Guy as Stewie yells at his mom over and over agin “mom! Mom! Mommy!” Until she finally snaps and yells back “WHAT?!”. That’s when the ringtone ends. She thinks it’s hilarious but it is awkward when she calls and I’m in public. Still not changing it.
My sister has that one, too. It's hilarious. Maybe it's a regional thing, because it draws laughs, not awkwardness.
Load More Replies...Years ago we were teasing a dad friend about this very thing when the 4yo in question came in and started up. Friend answered on the first “Dad!” 4yo: “I… um… can I… um…. Dad! Dad!” Kid was so used to the routine that he didn’t even know what he wanted till he’d gone through the warmup.
By 1912, many states, towns, and churches had adopted Mother’s Day as an annual holiday, and Jarvis had established the Mother’s Day International Association to help promote this cause. Her persistence paid off in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson signed a measure, officially establishing the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
My friend had bangs a few years back. She admits that it looked terrible on her
They never listen when you say it nicely, it's only once you scream that they listen.
Love this, thought it was only me that goes from mary poppins to batman after asking my kid 20 times to do something 😂🤣
Important missing step. After ‘ok children, time to go’, at 7 minutes later just say ‘it’s been nice knowing you. I’m leaving now. I’ve turned off the WiFi, hidden the snacks and I won’t be back to make lunch.’ You won’t need the 15 minute batman voice because they will be at the front door in 60 seconds.
My mom used to say "If you're coming with me C'MON!" in her best Georgia mom voice.
Load More Replies...i dont leave the house anymore except for school and im fine! *laughs in feral gremlin*
Load More Replies...We went to a nice Brazilian steak house for mothers day 2 (or 3??) years ago, in one of our first vacation outings since severe lockdown. We are sitting down from the salad bar, and I look to my left to see my 2 year old angelic, adorably dressed cherub sitting in her high chair, excited to eat. I look across the table at my parents, then to my right at my two older boys. My husband is returning to the table with food for the toddler, and I hear, "Ohmygoshshe'snaked!! Where is your shirt?" I look over, and in those short couple of seconds of me glancing across the table, my Lockdown Toddler has stripped her shirt off, and had thro it across the table in preparation of some serious eating. My husband and I are now frantically searching for her shirt because apparently even with an entire table filled with adults and two teenagers, none of us actually saw where the shirt went, except the lady at the table behind us, and she was laughing too hysterically to even attempt to speak.
I shouldn't have laughed so hard at this but that's gold
Load More Replies...The first trip back to target with 7&8 was mayhem... They totally forgot how to exist in public.
When I was pregnant my belly was quite HUGE. I met a little girl at my dad's friend's house. She took a liking to me and asked if I would come and visit her the next day. I told her no, but I would try to come back and I would have my baby. She was confused and I told her I had a baby growing inside of me and the next time I saw her, the baby would be outside of me. Then she asked the million dollar question. "Did it hurt when he got put in there?" No little girl, it did not hurt. 🤐
I had a friend who had a 3 yr old when I was 7-8 months pregnant and he asked why I ate the baby... kid logic! 😅😂
And while not everyone might have the opportunity to give their mom a bouquet of flowers in person, they do call.
A study by US-based international calling firm VIP Communications found that call volume on Mother’s Day is 8 percent higher than on New Year's, 11 percent higher than on Valentine’s Day, and 62 percent up on Halloween.
When my daughter was very young (2?), if she woke up first she would scream bloody murder so we would come get her out of the crib. It was terrifying to be awakened that way! I asked her to think of some other way to wake me. The next morning she woke up and started singing and clapping. It was so wonderful, and she thought it up all by herself.
I play a klaxon sound on youtube. naturally, the kids do not really like it.
No, see, kids are morning people for a short while. The best time to illustrate the point is an hour *after* they go to bed. Caveat: be prepared for another hour of trying to get them back to sleep and then 16 hours of Grumpy McGrump the following day.
If you don't point out the moo cow or the baa lamb when you pass them, do they really exist?
My husband is pointing me all heavy machinery we pass along... we don't have kids
How to cure his delusion? Rent an RV for a week's family holiday! That will put things into perspective for him
I'm Irish, so I pronounced the last two words the same way so, for a short time I was very confused about what she meant by it!
Well...saved me some time and heartache because I don't think that's such a bad idea...guess I won't try it..
My 12 year old daughter regularly asks me where her hairbrushes are, I bought her four at the same time (1 for her room, 1 for the car, 1 for the bathroom and a spare!) and she can’t locate ONE of them. She seems to think that I (her Dad), who has a shaven head, is borrowing them. 😂😂😂
Need to buy a brush with a solid metal frame, drill a hole in it and literally chain it to her bedframe.
Load More Replies...My daughter told me today that I can't use any of her stuff unless I ask...nicely. This leech has been using g my stuff and breaking it for years and now she's 17 and old enough to have stuff I want to use, Now she wants rules ?
“We analyzed the calling habits of more than 50,000 VIP Communications customers <...> in order to determine which expats show the most loyalty to their mothers over the phone on Mother’s Day in their respective countries,” said Peter Rogers, senior vice president of VIP Communications.
“We found that Mother’s Day is far and away the most popular day to place phone calls across the world, registering more calling traffic than any other holiday, including New Year’s and Valentine’s Day.”
I always wondered as a kid what the grownups did without me after I went to bed. Couldn't imagine that this time would make sense. Haha.
*sigh* I'm reading this as my child sits in my lap drinking milk, almost swan dove out of her crib because I wouldn't let her stay up
My 42 year old just texted me the other night at 1:30 a.m. to let me know what she was planning to do the next day and was offended that I did not care.
Or your 35 year old that moved out 17 years ago
Load More Replies...The baby giggles in her sleep which is adorable unless you're her teenage sister using the bathroom in a dark silent house at 3 am. Then unexpected baby giggles are f*cking terrifying
My little sister had on a full body cast (long story) and pigtails out each side opening.... my mom screamed cause she thought it was a big dog hanging over her ...... still laugh hysterically over this memory
yep, he ( 2yr ) was just standing there in middle of night staring at me , I’m 33 but scream loudly scare him to death he jumps back hits the stand topples over the lamp and now we are all awake ……
Heheh easy way to see if it's your child or a demon is to roar at them like an elephant seal :)
Me as a kid accompanying my mom to the dump with my twin: THIS GUY SAYS WE HAVE TO HAVE A TETANUS SHOT TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK HERE??!
Sorry, but this conversation wouldn't take place in many first world countries 🧐
And you are on a first name basis with everyone at the local hospital, aren't you?
However, it's worth mentioning that worldwide, this celebration varies depending on the country. In Thailand, for instance, Mother’s Day is always celebrated in August on the birthday of the current queen, Sirikit.
Another alternate observance of Mother’s Day can be found in Ethiopia, where families gather each fall to sing songs and eat a large feast as part of Antrosht, a multi-day celebration honoring motherhood.
But despite different customs, the appreciation for the women who brought us into this life is universal.
I don't think even my toddler would need more than 2 days for that 🫠
Those things work. When I lived in NY used to keep tons near windows
Usually robbers don't sneak in windows with bare feet🤔.....soooo.........why again would they work?
Load More Replies...Ours is angry geese outside and very large boots everywhere inside
There's nothing like having an angry goose hiss at you, walking towards you like a dragon
Load More Replies...You need to make a pair of shoes out of Legos... that way if you step on one, you only get taller.
Heh, family friend had a kid who wanted to play Dungeons and Dragons. So as a DM I set up a few adventures for him, wife and his parents. One encounter included caltrops and his mom asked what are those? Before I could respond, he says "Its like stepping on Legos".....extra XP awarded.
Which robbers remove their shoes before breaking in anyway? Or LEGO still hurts with shoe? Idk, we wear home slippers at home. So idk..
Love the dogs face he hasn't a clue what's going on but is just happy to be involved
Right, tell them a package is coming. Then later tell them you got a message that says, it’s getting delivered tomorrow.
Load More Replies...And checking the mailbox every day looking for my Little Orphan Annie decoder ring to finally come!
Could you do it again? I gotta witness this (sorry)
Load More Replies...I was scrolling down and I was like, "aww little flowers bouquets a gazebo... oh. A pad."
"Here, 3yo, stick this on your art so mommy can post it on twitter for likes"
I am sorry to backseat mom here but I think it is good to teach your children to nourish their personal space and as a parent show respect when the kids want some space, or don't want to be touched. I get that it isn't always possible, but this tweet being without context anyway I felt like saying that.
Agreed. From a mom of a germaphobic teenager who never let's me touch her at all.
Load More Replies...Still funny if it's typical kid overreacting (or using phrases they don't really understand). If on the other hand it's cos the mum is getting right in the kids face then not so much. But considering it's in a thread about funny tweets, I'm going with the former.
Load More Replies...Make her a green smoothie with kiwi and spinach on the morning B) show her you don't negotiate with terrorist
My kids would be quiet, and I would be fine (on the basis that ignorance is bliss), but then the youngest would randomly shout down the hallway "nothing mum", and I would RUN to see what hellish trouble they were getting into.
My sweet innocent 2 year old says "My broken!"...Uh what? What did you do?? (Alarms going off)
You get mad at them but then again, you reflect and think "How can I? That's literally me..." don't care! Go clean your mess!
When the tantrum has already begun there's no stopping it, not even reason or logic...
Load More Replies...Is loudly declaring 'Mama vulva!' better or worse? Asking for a friend
My husband was in a public restroom and a dad brought his toddler son in with him. Loud enough for everyone in the restroom to hear: "Wow, daddy! You have a biiig w***y! I mean it's so big, daddy!" Everyone in there laughed, then clapped and said something to the effect of, Good for you, big guy!
Yeah. I got the "ew mum! That poop stinks!" After I had skillfully managed to poop silently. She then opened the door to escape while I was still sitting
The wife and I were...having happy time. Somehow she managed to crawl out of her crib and bang on our door "what you do!???" Uh mommy and daddy are...play wrestling, yeah just play time sweet summer child!
Had real bad gastro and my nephew who was about 3 at the time came into the public toilet with me and as I was hurling my guts up he was patting me on the back saying "it's okay aunty"
Hey, if you get one of the two then you've won!
Load More Replies...Read good long book at the end of routine until they fall asleep. Got through good portion of Harry Potter books this way. Kids love it, especially if you do voices.
Ah yes the reason I never learned to take care of my teeth. Wish someone taught me what a hygiene routine was before I was a teenager. Cost me thousands to fix as an adult.
pft. I let them stay up to 1030 or whatever and they naturally fall asleep from sheer exhaustion. As for teeth brushing, after the first extraction due to a cavity (baby teeth) I was like see that is what happens if you don't brush them now F*****G BRUSH THEM AND I WILL NOT REMIND YOU IN FUTURE WE WILL JUST GO GET THEM PULLED. lol. yes it worked in case you were wondering.
I failed, my child is sitting next to me at 22:23 when she should be in bed...
“What does IDK stand for?” “I don’t know” “Fine, I’ll ask someone else.”
“What does IDC stand for?” “I don’t care” “Fine, I’ll ask someone else.”
Load More Replies..."What does a yellow light in traffic mean?" "Slow down." "What. Does. A. Yellow. Light. In. Traffic. Mean?"
make them help you with whatever it is you have to do. Never to young to violate child labour laws. /jk ... but seriously, I just get them involved. Dishes to wash? "YOU. Come help with dishes." "But dad" "Do you want me to confiscate your ipad? Or give the candy to your baby sibling?" "No....?" "Well move buster, wash. You, small child, come dry. Now." Just be firm and involve them. Teach them that hard work = reward. That way when they have to be slaves to capitalism at least it's not a shock.
I would've just ate the m&m to save that hassle, especially if it's a mini plain.
just say "parent tax" and eat five of their m&m's. When they protest remind them that you bought them. But my compensation for doing this is that if they ask for candy I always buy it. But if they've been naughty I give the candy to the child that hasn't been. Do this about 2-3 times and they behave like angels. Nothing like a swift and merciless justice to make kids realise you aren't fooling around with candy.
I do that to share one with my dog because she doesn't like the candy coating on the outside, only the chocolate in the middle. NOBODY FREAK OUT! She only gets one, I know dogs aren't supposed to have chocolate but half an m&m isn't going to hurt her and they make her so happy!
M&Ms are milk chocolate too. The amount of cocoa in it is really low and it's the cocoa you need to worry about. Just don't give them dark chocolate. Most sweet chocolate the bigger risk is making the dogs fat because of the amount of sugar and fat in them.
Load More Replies...My 2 grandsons are absolutely terrible for this if one has something the other must have the exact same thing down to the Same number of atoms or there's going to be trouble
Somehow, I'm reminded of this joke: Did you hear about the female rapper who only did battles on her period? They say she had a mean flow. Don't mean to offend, just got reminded of it somehow... XP
Well I will "meat" you by the window and we can look for Taurus (the bull) and Ursa Major (the bear) constellations tonight.
My mom would sing Metallica songs to put my sister and I to bed
My nephew used to love that scooby snacks song (“runnin around robbing banks all whacked off of scooby snacks”). Didn’t have the heart to tell him it’s not a scooby foo song lol
Tried playing lullabies she wants none of it. Only my metal playlist will do
I have a few old folk songs I sing to my kids. They are not very.... modern... in their view on females. Lol. But my girls like the songs and I like the songs. Will have to explain to them eventually what the songs are actually about. Or else my kids will grow up thinking I'm ok with women being tricked into relationships with men or women being ok with intruders in their bed. 😬
Mine says signed in as ‘DrunkPony2917’ EDIT: I made it:) EDIT 2: I’m 12:)
I think you only have so much energy for your lifetime and you use up nearly all of it in childhood
I got some of my favorites of my daughters tattooed on me. If I can figure out how to post a pic in the comments, I'll show it off!
Load More Replies...Since day one of being a mom I told ppl that I would only save drawings by my kids if there was both name and date on it. And it has saved us so much space and wondering. The drawings I keep, I put in their baby books (well.... it's a ring binder for each kid) and it works so well. :)
Save them all and turn them into their birthday cards every year starting at 21.
If it's terrible you put it on the fridge until the next terrible thing, then you swap it, and store it in a box in the attic that will never be opened until after you die and then they say "Oh wow, she kept it all this time!". If it's good you frame it, it doesn't have to be perfect for you to like it enough to frame it.
We saved almost all in a big box. Now, my daughters are soon to be young adults and are still into drawing, using a Wacom tablet and are really talented, checking tutorials on how to draw manga etc. They love looking through their old paintings and doing "remakes" of them for fun. :)
Cause he can’t breath through the mask and he’s not sleeping: he’s unconscious.
Woah! I didn't know you owned a cloning device! They all look the exact same!
He just did battle with Thanos, got snapped away and manage to come back but is now exhausted? XD
I'm always the one who has to finish the chick's food. I got a half-liquid, spit-covered (she has a snotty cold right now) piece of chocolate dumped in my hands today. Even though I love chocolate, that one landed in the bin 🤢
This sucks the most, when you have children and the summer sun beams through the blinds at their bedtime.
Whoever invented this nightmarish device... I thank you sarcastically
My dad says one of his regrets is that when he was a kid they announced at school assembly that anyone who was interested in learning the recorder could sign up for lessons and he thought "but I already know how to use a tape recorder!" and ended up missing out.
So that means I spent my whole childhood in preparation? Why is it I still didn't know s**t about parenting when the time came? 🤪
emergency jar of coffee!!! Why didn't I think of that! Brilliant!
Load More Replies...At this point, they should just sell one high quality digital copy that can be resized and printed out as many or as few times as you want.
…and then someone asks you for a snack even though dinner is in the oven literally RIGHT NOW, Robert
And then by approximately age 9, they learn exactly the best time to ask from something that usually gets a good result. Usually when Mom is tired and distracted and will just say yes without thinking about it.
Respect boundaries and personal space. But also, never be ashamed of having a loving family!
Lol, I said the same thing at a friend’s party in 3rd grade
Meanwhile, me as a sheltered child: *spends years listening to Kidz Bop version of Get This Party Started* *finally hears P!nk version as a teen* (in my head) "I'll be burning rubber; they'll be watching me pass." makes more sense than "I'll be burning rubber; they'll be kissing my a*s."
Also, I love P!nk, and most of her swears fit her songs just fine.
Load More Replies...This unfortunately is inevitable no matter what, unless you don’t drink milk from the carton.
My daughters used to play ball on the big balcony in our former apartment. One time they were having so much fun, shouting and laughing their lungs to the limits. Suddenly they both came indoors, ran to their room and put on their sound protective ear muffs. When my wife asked why they put those on, they proclaimed "we are being so loud!"
When my son was 3, he locked me, his 6 years old sister und his baby brother in the bathroom and wouldn't open the door. We were locked for 3 hours. I would beg him please, open the door and he would say in a sing voice noOO! I was just waiting till my husband comes home, but what I didn't know was that he would come late this day.... My daughter was scared so I played with her and we drank water from the sink.
OMG. Why does your bathroom lock from the outside?!
Load More Replies...My kid was reading something about a the 1904 world fair and he unironically asked if I was born then. So I showed him a fashion illustration from 1904 of a woman with the same hair coloring as me and told him yep that's me. His 3rd grade teacher says he has a math brain but his concept of time is non existent.
My kids and I live with my mother. I was laying in my room until my son fell asleep when my mum throws herself through the door yelping "What's wrong? Are you okay?" to discover that the loud commotion was my son snoring. She's baffled how a 10 year old can snore like a fully grown man. He does, however, take after his father in that department.
Have you been to the doctor with him? The one for nose, ears and throat. He might have enlarged tonsils or something else. I am not 100% sure with a 10 year old, but I know this is not normal for younger kids. My daughter has an appointment soon, because she snores.
Load More Replies...Mom's are AMAZING!!! As a single dad that has raised his now high school age twin boys by myself since they were 1yr old and their mom skipped out...I appreciate and relate to alot of this. But Mom's fooking RULE!!! My mom is a Saint. Most Mom's are. Thank you ladies for being their for us.
You are an amazing person for not giving up on your kids! Single dads don't get the recognition they deserve.
Load More Replies...TBH I don't get this "parenting is hard" thing. I've mostly raised my own kids and it's super easy, much easier than dealing with adults and their stupid neuroses and insecurities. Here's the rules. 1. Be consistent. Always do what you say you're going to do, follow through, be predictable, do stuff in a routine order, carry out threats etc. 2. Be interested. Always ask them about their day, sit and talk to them, and take your face out social media and make eye contact. If they can't remember what they did that day then ask them why you are paying for school if they aren't paying attention. Keep asking them each day till they get the message that they must be able to tell you what they did. 3. When they are tiny (newborn etc to toddler) is the key period of their life. Be 100% present. If possible stay with them at home or get parttime work etc. Do not delegate their parenting to someone who has zero interest/investment in the child. 4. Always treat them like adults. Speak properly...
10. Teach them kindness and respect. If they say something unkind tell them it is unkind. If they say something nice thank them. If they fight/are mean, tell them to stop with a believable and real threat/warning. If they are going to meet someone they will find boring, sentimental, or old, prepare them to be polite. Coach them in what to say, e.g. "Hello again Gran, I am happy to see you. How are you doing? I remember last time you said you were not feeling well, are you ok today" etc. Even if it's insincere. Manners are NOT just customary. They are displays of care and kindness. Result: perfect kids. Really.
Load More Replies...Kitty, obviously you are not a mom. You love them like crazy -- and they can still drive you crazy. It doesn't mean you stop loving them.
Load More Replies...My daughters used to play ball on the big balcony in our former apartment. One time they were having so much fun, shouting and laughing their lungs to the limits. Suddenly they both came indoors, ran to their room and put on their sound protective ear muffs. When my wife asked why they put those on, they proclaimed "we are being so loud!"
When my son was 3, he locked me, his 6 years old sister und his baby brother in the bathroom and wouldn't open the door. We were locked for 3 hours. I would beg him please, open the door and he would say in a sing voice noOO! I was just waiting till my husband comes home, but what I didn't know was that he would come late this day.... My daughter was scared so I played with her and we drank water from the sink.
OMG. Why does your bathroom lock from the outside?!
Load More Replies...My kid was reading something about a the 1904 world fair and he unironically asked if I was born then. So I showed him a fashion illustration from 1904 of a woman with the same hair coloring as me and told him yep that's me. His 3rd grade teacher says he has a math brain but his concept of time is non existent.
My kids and I live with my mother. I was laying in my room until my son fell asleep when my mum throws herself through the door yelping "What's wrong? Are you okay?" to discover that the loud commotion was my son snoring. She's baffled how a 10 year old can snore like a fully grown man. He does, however, take after his father in that department.
Have you been to the doctor with him? The one for nose, ears and throat. He might have enlarged tonsils or something else. I am not 100% sure with a 10 year old, but I know this is not normal for younger kids. My daughter has an appointment soon, because she snores.
Load More Replies...Mom's are AMAZING!!! As a single dad that has raised his now high school age twin boys by myself since they were 1yr old and their mom skipped out...I appreciate and relate to alot of this. But Mom's fooking RULE!!! My mom is a Saint. Most Mom's are. Thank you ladies for being their for us.
You are an amazing person for not giving up on your kids! Single dads don't get the recognition they deserve.
Load More Replies...TBH I don't get this "parenting is hard" thing. I've mostly raised my own kids and it's super easy, much easier than dealing with adults and their stupid neuroses and insecurities. Here's the rules. 1. Be consistent. Always do what you say you're going to do, follow through, be predictable, do stuff in a routine order, carry out threats etc. 2. Be interested. Always ask them about their day, sit and talk to them, and take your face out social media and make eye contact. If they can't remember what they did that day then ask them why you are paying for school if they aren't paying attention. Keep asking them each day till they get the message that they must be able to tell you what they did. 3. When they are tiny (newborn etc to toddler) is the key period of their life. Be 100% present. If possible stay with them at home or get parttime work etc. Do not delegate their parenting to someone who has zero interest/investment in the child. 4. Always treat them like adults. Speak properly...
10. Teach them kindness and respect. If they say something unkind tell them it is unkind. If they say something nice thank them. If they fight/are mean, tell them to stop with a believable and real threat/warning. If they are going to meet someone they will find boring, sentimental, or old, prepare them to be polite. Coach them in what to say, e.g. "Hello again Gran, I am happy to see you. How are you doing? I remember last time you said you were not feeling well, are you ok today" etc. Even if it's insincere. Manners are NOT just customary. They are displays of care and kindness. Result: perfect kids. Really.
Load More Replies...Kitty, obviously you are not a mom. You love them like crazy -- and they can still drive you crazy. It doesn't mean you stop loving them.
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