Parenting can be so many things, from a magical, wonderful experience to something like a marathon one runs for multiple decades. So it’s probably no surprise that parents across the globe create and enjoy that stable of internet content, the meme.
“The Decent Mother'' is an Instagram page dedicated to relatable, wholesome, and hilarious mom memes about parenting and kids. Get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and share your thoughts and experiences in the comments section below.
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I work at an elementary school sometimes and I’m a goddess to the little ones for knowing the pup’s names. My claim to fame.
yeah, I hate sponge bob! I totally agree with you.
Load More Replies...My Little Pony. Hubby came home and asked "when the heck did Twilight get wings? Go back a few episodes"
Yo Gabba Gabba and Fresh Beat Band for me. They were actually pretty good shows
really? I loved those when I was a kid. nobody watched those shows in my generation. and I still don't know why. there so good.
Load More Replies...Measles is making a comeback! So is polio! Good job, anti-vaxxers! (sarcasm)
My god I was 2 weeks late for my little ones chicken pox vaccine because I was very sick and he contracted it the day before I set up an appointment for him to get vaccinated. I was living alone and had no help, to take him sooner. He braved through it and God bless my little bub it was a minor case of the pox. Vaccine on the prescribed date is super important. I haven't missed a single one for either child after this mishap.
Oh that's sounds great and sorry to hear you being down with sickness too
Load More Replies...The Germans do it best. Vaccines are mandatory and not obliging results in hefty fines and i even believe kids are not welcome at daycare without.
And when I tell them I got encephalitis from measles, nearly died and now have epilepsy, they make that little pruny face and shake their heads at me like I am lying. Why would I make that up?
Yes but these people refuse treatment (well actually prophylaxis) for their children who cannot decide for themselves. They affect both their kids and kids who cannot get vaccinated by lowering herd immunity.
Load More Replies...Setting up an inside beach? I hope my kids never find out about this cartoon.
The characters are bringing sand in the house so they can pretend they are at a beach. Amd children love to copy thier heros! Sand is a bugger to get rid of. I hate sand.
Load More Replies...A “fun” part of being a parent is learning that your offspring will literally develop new powers and methods to outsmart you year after year. A newborn will cry and cry, but at least they are pretty immobile. Toddlers, on the other hand, have pretty workable feet and will use them to engage in all sorts of shenanigans.
While this means you can do more things together, it also means a lot more active supervision, as anyone who has seen a concerned looking father sprinting after a child on a scooter can attest to. This is also perhaps why parents turn to memes as a way of venting and sharing the ups and downs of raising a child.
That baby is loved by their siblings! Those are paw patrol stickers! If you are 4-6 those things are golden!
yeah, my mom still has pictures from me being covered in markers and paint because of my siblings when I was little.
Load More Replies...Or eyeball stickers all over the face and/or carrier. guilty of causing that.
My brother always says "she's 4" when I ask why my niece is crying or otherwise acting like a disaster. :)
Load More Replies...Oh it doesn't get better. My little ones were angelic as toddlers no mess, no fuss, no cry, no late nights. Then my elder one turned 12 and my younger one 7, all hell broke loose. I have two boys and it is a battle
My husband is very involved and most parenting things are equal but my kids will still seek me out in another room to help them with something when dad is right there! So annoying.
Not that funny for the dads who really are equal and spend every minute they can with their kids making sure they know that they are loved and safe.
After all, a newfound independence (even if it’s just walking) comes with a responsibility of the parent to actually teach their kid some good behaviors. No child is going to happily do their business in a toilet or brush their teeth without constant reinforcement. It’s not all bad though, children come with a sort of wonder and creativity that basically no adult can match.
I had to restore order with a whip and a chair when mine got home from the grandparents…
You really shouldn’t tie your parents to chairs and whip them. Just explain that you do parenting differently to how they did it.
Load More Replies...when I go to my grandmothers (im not a toddler ok) I just get food. so much food.
Not just as a toddler, all the way untill the grandparents are gone…
My Mom sent my kids home with a literal brick of Pixie Sticks rubber banded together and smuggled inside a pair of pjs. The kids were like 2 and 4, so this was all my Moms doing. Like What the What???
Lol my grandkids have the same rules at my place as they do at home. Same food, bedtime etc. My grandkids know that and they don't ask for anything that they can't have at home.
My brother and SIL have five kids and live right next door. SILs' and my mothers' rules mostly overlap out of neccessity: spoiling kids that come around every day bites you in the (rear) end. Still: there are some "only when you're here, not with your parents/grandparents" moments, but they (kids and adults) cope with it.
Load More Replies...Happens everyday, also they feel invincible when grandparents are around. We are invisible 🫥
It is not as obvious before becoming a parent, but raising a kid reminds me of driving on a dark road, and your headlights don't quite show you far enough to really be sure you are going in the right direction. You always feel the worry about making the right choices, and the consequences.
My Mom and Dad tried so hard, but I'm still an a*****e! A fairly successful and funny a*****e, but an a*****e none the less!
It is a task, I am dealing with an almost teen and an almost 8. I really have to be delicate, honest and not so honest with many many many things. Birds and bees prime example. Delicate, ballerinaesque balance required
She may need a tetanus shot. Other than that I’m sure she’ll be fine.
Load More Replies...The fruits of a parent's labors (or lack thereof) will show up later, as the toddler grows up a bit. It’s important to keep them active and engaged in learning new things. This is also the time where some things might start becoming habitual, as children develop more distinct preferences and desires and now have the autonomy to at least try and keep them.
Just for a moment there, when I read crushed goldfish, I had forgotten about the snacks of that name....
Don't vulture/stalk ANYONE in the parking lot. It's creepy and EVERYONE hates it when they're getting vultured.
My daughter just said she loves it when we leave and other people are waiting to get our spot, makes her feel important. Just the other day a nice lady made a sign to show me she is going to her car so I can get her spot and I waited. I think we can be nice to each other and it’s not weird or uncomfortable.
Load More Replies...Millennial slang for "bro" co-opted from African-Americans in effort to sound cool.
Load More Replies...My mom has essential oils but she isn’t an anti-vaxxer, she just likes to make candles 🕯️
same! but she uses them in those air misty things.
Load More Replies...Gets all their "medical" advice from their vitamin store lady, their holistic practitioner, and their chiropractor. Emergency backup from Facebook moms.
Funny enough, in danish "Rock" = "Sten". "Sten" is a very common name in Denmark.
And i like the name rock.. (makes me think of a non binary person)
Load More Replies...No one is more pathetically helpless than a man with the flu, a fever or a sore throat.
Load More Replies...It's true it's true. My younger one was down with a mind numbing fever. He recovered in two days. My elder one had viral fever that started with throat pain, lasted three days. I am now down with never before, can't swallow without really squirming and troubling my poor throat, ache. Antibiotics keep it manageable and I'm on liquids alone. I barely get out of bed to send elder one to school summer holidays lasted 2 weeks, week 3 I am out with this.
The fact that they call it research is offensive to anyone working 12 hour days in a lab 6 days a week to give people a chance to survive some of the nastier diseases.
Or even doing that parttime. Research isn't looking stuff up. Would be fine to just do that, but actual results of actual research. All anti-science is stupid. Would it just be themselves, I wouldn't even mind, but as this vastly unnecessarily reintroduces diseases that were gone for decades ... maybe having at least one classmate suddenly not come anymore, but return a few months later, with crutches, brackets, braces or even a wheelchair just made it visible in a more convincing way than old black and white photographs of parents' broken classmates?
Load More Replies...Every time I get on a plane I trust that the engineers design it properly, the manufacturer built it properly, the maintenance crew maintains it properly, and that the pilot knows how to fly it. The alternative is to build a plane, maintain it, and fly it myself. So being as my ceiling in medical research is barely passing biology 101 my freshman year of college, then I am pretty content to trust the people who have devoted their life to medical research
Both pronunciations are correct. It's a matter of dialect
Load More Replies...PSA: You don't actually have to screw them. That's their wishful thinking. Let them screw themselves.
I agree. I got more praise for being a single dad of one than women seem to ever get. I saw that early on.
Load More Replies...My next door neighbor calls herself a Domestic Goddess. :) She's got the right idea.
My God, I die to get out of the house for a few hours a week. But my kids are at a I won't trust you alone with your younger brother (or you both may bring down tornadoes and tsunamis on the whole house) and the other is at a mum-take-me-too stage. Once I am out it doesn't take me more than 30mins to wish I was washed up, in bed, reading a book. I love my boys but they make me want to pull my hair out, when outside. At home they are pretty much in control. I stress on that delicately. It works only if I play my cards right
Don't know why you were downvoted. I've been there, too. Take my upvote.
Load More Replies...How about when they show up at the side of the bed and are just staring at you until you wake up? Kids are creepy sometimes.
"Mummy I'm sick" then puking in the doorway is a core memory for me. I was a weird kid
8.30 mummy I can't eat more--- 10 p.m mummy tummy hurts, 10.15 mummy water, 10.30 mummy I am hungry, 10.45 mummy it is very cold, 11.00 mummy when are you coming to bed. 11.10 snoring because I have both on either side
That's why we have 30 minutes per evening just sitting around making no sound that could sound even remotely interesting.
Why not? A mom can look nice and dress herself up for the playgroup if she wants to. I don't have human children, but I don't like even the "ha ha funny joking" shame that women do to other women over stuff like clothes, makeup, dressing up, etc.
If you wear nice clothes at the playground with a toddler they either get dirty or even damaged or you are that kind of parent that does not interact with your child.
Load More Replies...Some women can just wear makeup, look nice , have their hair and nails done and still play with their kids, bake with them, arrive early or on time . I've a friend who has one kid age 19 who looks messy, arrives late. That's fine too that's her thing.
Hair styled with a blow dryer, either at home or in a salon.
Load More Replies...As an adopted child, I can definitely say that I was NOT breastfed and there was no way I could have been XD While I might be weird, I definitely survived to adulthood with all my bones and organs intact! Formula is fine! Fed is best XD
I needed this. I came to this whole thread in tears, looking for a funny distraction while my spouse feeds our baby a bottle of formula because yet again it’s a morning I don’t have enough breastmilk to feed our child. I hate the medical issues that are keeping me from feeding her the way I wanted to… but I’m grateful for formula that keeps her belly full. It’s hard for me, but my kid is happy and doesn’t know anything different. I hope she grows up weird but intact too! Thank you
Load More Replies...The only issue with "formula " as you overseas people call it, is that people in the third world were tricked into thinking that it was better than the real milk by some company. Apart from that, what else would they drink if the breastfeeding for some reason isn't an option?
This is absolutely true. Nevertheless, I love the concept of breast-milk banks (at hospitals) where moms with much milk can donate their excess milk, which is then checked and given to (especially premature) babies whose moms don't have (enough) milk.
I have six grand-children, two of whom were breastfed. Personal choices from my daughter and two DILs. And you know what? They're all healthy, cherished and happy, which finally is all that counts. Breastfeeding can be great, but it also can be a miserable experience for both mother and child. Better give a bottle with shared fulfilment and pleasure than breastfeed with anxiety and/or pain that will communicate to the baby. And no guilt! Your baby is fed and cared for, you didn't fail.
I think I saw this before and the landing was something like ‘eating old chips they find on the car floor’. Anyway, I didn’t realise how pro-breastfeeding I was (for myself ) until i had a baby who wasn’t eating and I went through hell to make her feed well from my breast. Slightly better nourishment, much much easier on the mom.
Please note: Recent scientific research and clinical studies have shown that infant formulas made from cow's milk (e.g., Similac and Enfamil) significantly increase the risk of NEC occurring in premature infants. Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating disease that affects mostly the intestine of premature infants. The wall of the intestine is invaded by bacteria, which cause local infection and inflammation that can ultimately destroy the wall of the bowel (intestine). It’s a horrific painful death.
Interesting! I'm adopted and was premature (I think like 28-29 weeks? I'm not sure) and I was fed on Similac. :< I'm glad I dodged that particular bullet D:
Load More Replies...My son once told me, that I'm the world's best farter. So where's my award?
pretty sure you and your sidekick Skid Mark would be super wipers arch nemesis.
Load More Replies..."If you're going inside, would you get me another Pepsi?" The words of my late and beloved aunt. She was amazing.
This is me but I'm a Nana, it's after the kidlets are asleep and I'm drinking a decent red. Summer and inflatable pools aren't just for kids, in my opinion. FYI if you have one, it's New Year's Eve, the kidlets have gone home, you're in the Southern Hemisphere, have fairy lights and champagne, go for it!!!
I would hang out with Mom!! LOL! Buy kids a pizza and some soda and... and...
Don't worry... You'll think of something kid free to do eventually. Sometimes being able to do nothing is nice too 🙂
I'd give anything for an hour of peace...kids go to grandma's...why is it so quiet around here!
As an Empty Nester I can promise you the loudest sound, once the children leave, is silence. If they have to move back in and then leave again, the silence is still loudest
Hehe when I moved from Sharjah to Abu Dhabi, a couple of hours drive, my mother was so sad. My mother, the woman who moved from south Wales to Nigeria, two flights at the time, with no option to come home for a year. With the only grandchild (moi)
Yeah, you don't have to wake at two-hourly intervals because you're already awake with a child's foot in your face.
Load More Replies...You betcha it is, I don't know how we do it, go to sleep and get up next day to do it all over again
Load More Replies...my dad waited until mom was gone, then was an absolute a*****e to us cuz hit ptsd
Hahaha 🤣 evil joys of life. They are perfect angels in front of dad. He thinks I am a maniac for being strict about several things. He is slowly finding out 😂 layer by layer. But I am counting on my pre teen morphing into a nice, responsible fella.
Yeah I have done this, lullabys, jokes, stories and past 30 mins straight threats
To the point of just playing a recording of Samuel L. Jackson reading "Go the F**k to Sleep!"
We sing Soft Kitty from the big bang theory and then I follow up with love you, sleep well and I'll see you in the morning which they repeat to me and then I say you have 20 minutes to fall asleep. No talking from now. I started singing it to my eldest grandson when he was 8 months, now he is 9, his brother is 7 and sister is 3. What is hilarious is that they've taught her the words to the song and we all sing it together at bedtime
My friend was holding his baby daughter on his lap while sitting at a table and she was playing with a toy which she dropped. He leaned to pick it up and whack goes her head on the table.
I was fitting stair carpet for a friend, looked up just in time to see his toddler bouncing on the bed, hurtle forward and head butt the corner of the dressing table. Had a first aid kit and covered the 2 inch wound (10cm ?) Told him to take the boy to hospital for stiches and that I was a witness in case they thought it was child harming. Realised why I never wanted kids.
Dropped as a baby, fractured my skull. It explains a lot about me….
Join the club I fell out of an upstairs bedroom window and fractured my skull.
Load More Replies...Of course!! Once I was making him laugh by throwing him in the air and I accidentally whacked his head on the ceiling. I know they have soft spots but I swear baby/toddler heads are super hard. :)
Daughter was in a walker, wheel came off, she slammed her face into an outside corner of a closet, the bride covered the entire side of her face. There were 4 adults standing there but it happened so fast that there was no catching her. Her grandpa tore down the closet the next day, took him that long to stop shaking
The real holiday is the day AFTER Valentine's Day. That's when all the chocolate is discounted.
There is an alternative for this day - in a small Eastern European country on this day it's celebrated the day of the wine. So they're you go. P.s. country is Bulgaria and the celebration is called Trifon Zarezan (good luck pronouncing it sober if you have no Slavic knowledge)
I celebrate Valentine's Day by shooting off fireworks and 4th of July calebrating why I'm single! Win-Win! (with chocolate on both days!) LOL!
I think this at least 3 times an hour lol (not a parent but still)
Load More Replies...When my kid complains about having to clean his room or do basically anything, we tell him that’s fine, we’ll just give all his stuff to the poor kids. When he tells us he hates living here, we tell him he can go live with the poor kids. This always straightens him out. He doesn’t want to live with or like the poor kids.
I just answered that it was OK not to be a perfect mom, since I was far from having perfect children...
I would just pick the kid up and the shoes and get in the car. And then when we got where we were going I would say you can't get out until the shoes are on. And the shoes were on very fast
I think it's an old evolutionary trait. Men are never completely sure of their paternity and a newborn who looks a lot like the father gets better chances of being acknowledged and taken care of by him. As the kid grows older, resemblance with the mother usually gets more obvious.
A colleague adopted a child from overseas and the adoption agency wanted a picture of him (not his wife) so they could find a child that resembled him to decrease the time it would take to build strong bonds
Load More Replies...I used to eat about half of the popsicle and then let the rest melt to the point of it becoming like a slushi and then slurp it down.
Load More Replies...I make my own. Its the only way I can get my favourite flavour. Gin and tonic.
Please stop making too much things with children. They need a break and to get bored. Some kids experiment burn out because of parents pulling the bar too high in term of activities, mostly to glorify themselves and their parentality. Making children just reading, resting, drawing or simply invent games is fine
These and water balloons were the highlights of my childhood summers!
I love these things, I always look forward to getting them in the summer :)
I'd wake up and have a little baby nursing already. No crying. Just the occasional diaper needed.
Cosleeping, good luck to get rid of that after 3 years old ! Everyone in the right place, and that's all
I’m not even a mom but I’ve definitely been headbutted in the face by a toddler and that’s definitely the vulnerable area 😂
Load More Replies...Ppl need to grow up and stop saying their kids are always the problem.
McKenna you need to lighten up a little. Didn't you read the title of the piece? 50 Of The Funniest Mom Jokes And Memes. It's all just a bit of light hearted fun for heavens sake!.
Load More Replies...My mom lets her grandkids get away with stuff she would have murdered me for when I was a kid! ;)
My bunny does this at least 2-3 times a week. She thinks it's hilarious.
Load More Replies...My niece! She was out in my parents sunroom and messing with the plants. My dad asked her what she was doing and she got a huge ear to ear grin on her face and said "I do everything!* We still laugh about it and it was 15 years ago!
And they can bite me. I'm not buying your over-priced, no-real-benefit-to-my-health garbage.
Those blessed be the fruit dresses look great on everyone but me ffs
Same here. I’m wearing one now. Looked great on the hanger. Not leaving the house today, so who cares?
Load More Replies...oh shut up Philly, no woman would ever want to date you if you keep being so objectifying
There was a photo series of people making fun of the dresses. It was hilarious!
I'm in the market. Show me please, don't tease.
Load More Replies...It means: next morning, the kid you can hardly wake up at 8 am on weekdays will be wide awake at 5.30am, in a terrible mood (because tired) from 8.30 on and absolutely refuse to take a nap all day long.
What? Gervais does charity/charitable work, supports gay rights, is vegan, and is an atheist. How has he somehow made YOU "feel unsafe" personally?
Load More Replies...I forgot all about that game! Thanks for helping to restore that eroded memory.
Load More Replies...Us "pet parents" have our own nightmares and struggles (like the 2am "hork hoRK HORK" of a cat, or the eternal living hell of the diarrhea after your puppy eats literal garbage while on a walk) but only the truly unhinged think that it's somehow exactly the same as raising a human child. I can call my dogs and cats silly nicknames and I don't have to worry about them actually LEARNING the words I say to them XD We do suffer the knowledge that our beloved "furbabies" will have much, much shorter lifespans than any human children we might have, however :(
True. My cat is both cuter, and far less work. Also, when he has a tantrum, he expresses it with angry mews, and rage-zoomies where he runs laps around the room and jumps on and off the furniture. Much less stressful than having a child screech like an airhorn and throw things. I'm well aware I picked the better option.
They both require a lot of work. I’m a proud pet mom and consider my dog my daughter.
Bob Saget was not a paedophile... The malicious rumor about him and the Olsen twins was refuted repeatedly by, get this, the twins themselves. They even published a beautiful tribute to him after his death. Please delete your comment, it is untrue.
Load More Replies...I managed to chip my tooth in actual maths class a couple of months ago lol
On the other hand, I would like to know the original context of this picture...
It's a Photoshop XD in the original, the mom and kids had dad's shirts. f74-6610dd...8a3cc8.jpg
It only takes a couple of minutes, but they absolutely hate doing it! It's so exhausting telling them everyday for years.
Is this something that the modern father should relate to? It sounds very much like a 50s family. Taking care of your kids should be natural regardless of gender. I'd one of you need to be somewhere and do something, even just to relax and take a walk, of course the other parent will look after the kids.
The idea that this humor is gender specific is the real joke. There are many fathers for whom the primary parent role is theirs alone.
Load More Replies...Not everyone got the luxury of getting paid to stay at home. Some us were considered "essential " and had to work for our money.
Lot less chance of parenting, if you look like the one on the right?
Load More Replies...What's up with the haircut in the pic to the right? Penis? Mushroom?
I lost all respect for BLM when they called for rioting in places like Santa Monica (where I live) and Beverly Hills. Basically, inciting violence. So much video footage of black thugs smashing shop windows, looting and setting fires. Our cops wear black uniforms, so BLM means they matter, too.
"Our cops wear black uniforms, so BLM means they matter, too." - wearing black-colored clothing does not make you a person of color. Just putting on a black shirt and black slacks does not somehow magically make you a black person.
Load More Replies...These are mostly super dated. Half of them are about Covid lockdown. Bored Panda is being lazy panda today.
Load More Replies...These are mostly super dated. Half of them are about Covid lockdown. Bored Panda is being lazy panda today.
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