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Weng Chen aka Messy Cow is a mindful mom. And a creative one. She's been documenting the struggles of raising kids for quite some time now and they're as accurate as they get. Messy Cow showed us the difference between having the first vs. second child, what happened to her husband after becoming a father, how both of their lives changed after having kids, and all of the painful ways in which a 2-year-old can hurt you. I don't know what universe hack Messy Cow's using, but she still finds time to draw her hilariously relatable comics.
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GenXandEarnedItAll 6 years ago
Every mother (myself included) should take more time for their self. We don't do enough of that. My reprieve is locking myself in the bathroom and going on Bored Panda for about 7 minutes. I see I'm not the only one who feels guilty about taking time to myself.
BusLady 6 years ago
Shamefully, I spend way more than 7 minutes on BP. Lol My kids are grown, and I'm retired. But I remember those days when it was difficult to find Me time. I felt guilty when I was relaxing, thinking of all the work that needed to be done. There was always work. I regret that I didn't take more Me time.
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Gosiulka Bloem 6 years ago
As a mother of a 11-week-old baby I can already relate to this one 😅
"When I was about 2, 3 years old, my mom drew me a little mermaid and told me the story," the artist wrote on her website. "I was fascinated, it was like magic that the most beautiful picture just came from my mom’s pen. I believe that was when I fell in love with drawing and storytelling."
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Amanda Ammermann 6 years ago
Just startled coworkers busting out laughing at this one .... whoops
Now, she's mostly drawing parenting comics about her dreams and everyday life, raising her two daughters, Electra, the firstborn, and Ali, the secondborn, together with her husband. "I do this almost full time now," Messy Cow told Bored Panda. "So besides the time I take care of the kids, I make my funny comics.
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Ruth 6 years ago
I've always wondered if this is because a year is a bigger part of your life when you're younger. Like, when I was 5 a year was a fifth of my life, but at 30 it's a thirtieth.
Ruth oro 6 years ago
@Ruth. I never thought of it this way , makes sense!
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Michelle Muirhead 6 years ago
Remember when it was ages before the school holidays came? Now the days and weeks fly by and another year has gone before you know it.
Laura Pantazis 6 years ago
This was true for me as soon as I graduated from college. School was the worst and time past by at an impossibly slow rate.
Joyce Brantley 6 years ago
Maybe several people should add age appropriate content for people who are middle aged, old and older.
Jyri Hakola 6 years ago
When things that must be waited for are replaced with tasks with deadlines the life feels shorter and shorter..
The artist said her family is already familiar with her cartoon drawings. "My older child can read now, and she loves the comics. The younger one would look at the pictures and laugh. My husband doesn't talk about it much, but he reads everything and I think he enjoys it.
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Nomadus Aureus 6 years ago
Mine rearranged my kitchen while I was out. Apparently, everything was wrong. I'm left-handed...
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Creative Username 6 years ago
The husband one had me laughing way harder than I probably should have
Out of all the parenting-related things Weng is currently working on, teaching her younger daughter Chinese is one of the most difficult ones. "I want her to read my mother tongue but she doesn't like it. I just force myself to do it every day, for 5 minutes no matter how difficult it is."
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Laugh Fan 6 years ago (edited)
I share an office with my husband - he's taking over my desk! Messy sod.
Ronel du Plessis 6 years ago
Same here!!! I've put up a divider and I swear the divider is moved every day! Closer and closer, making my space smaller and smaller. Inch by inch. Day by day
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Eagle Girl 6 years ago
Think that's just men& women by nature. Their car is their kingdom & ours is a closet lol
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Sadie Jayne 6 years ago
You might get an Alexa and have it read a mechanics manual to you :-)
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Scott McDonald 6 years ago
Kids, the pinnacle of evolution! (Side note) how are we going to live until the 22nd century?!?
Landon Ream 3 years ago
I don’t like Monday and I kinda like Sunday except I have to go to bed early and go back to school on Monday
Pamela Scott 6 years ago
The weekends come around again once the little ones are grown and out Your nightlife will be a bit different but as long as you and Hubby make sure to stay as involved with each other as you are with the kids it will still be great! Of course you think about what the kids are doing but you get weekends back.
mlarocque87 6 years ago
I feel more rushed on weekends than weekdays... I often get more me time during the week - what gives!
Christina Sersif 6 years ago
Probably good advice to make sure you read before and after otherwise this comic makes no sense lol
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Vic 6 years ago
Yes the stomach has compartments, and biggest one is for ice creams and Cake
Load More Replies... Creative Username 6 years ago
Don't quote me on this, but I actually think I heard somewhere that you are able to eat more if it's something different than what you were eating, so, in a way, everyone has a bit of a dessert stomach
Creative Username 6 years ago
Or maybe I just like ice cream too much to waste the opportunity.
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Kwj 6 years ago
My 7 year old son is convinced that he has two stomach's, one for food and one seperate for ice cream :D
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BusLady 6 years ago
When I was a little girl, I adored my boy cousin. The grownups said that we would grow up and marry each other, teasing us. I was like 7, and told my cousin "We are going to get married when we grow up." And he said "We can't get married, we're cousins." It broke my heart. 💔
TheExtremeSmell 6 years ago
I can hear propellers... let your toddlers date or marry who they choose. It’s called learning from mistakes people
Sassy Gay Bean Who Loves Dogs 4 years ago
One time when I was a kid I had an imaginary husband who had my dad's name, Kevin.
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Aria Whitaker 6 years ago
LOL. Mine says "cheeeesee" as loud as humanly possible and plasters on the absolute largest, diabolical-looking smile she can possibly manage....she looks...insane. Hope she grows out of it soon! ;)
Twenty øne doggos 6 years ago
What my family would always do is say something that would make us kids give A genuine smile, for instance, we used to say, "UNDERWEAR!"
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Matthew Rasanen 6 years ago
There are so many heart-warming and precious moments in children's' expressions that we can never manage to photograph, and then 30, 40 years later, we know that they were there, but our memories cannot recall them exactly as well as a photography could have. I have seen many parents miss the opportunity for this, because children have these cute expressions so often that the parents are so used to them happening all the time that they forget that these are, really, rare moments in a child's life that will never occur again once they are a few years older. Perhaps these wonderful moments are meant to be fading memories on the road to maturity, both as children and ourselves as maturing adults.
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Benjamin Boysley 6 years ago
I mean, that's a fairly realistic interpretation of how kids affect the home isn't it?
TheExtremeSmell 6 years ago
In game of thrones the mother dragons egg got crushed so she turned on the city of winter fell and burned it. Before she was a nice mama dragon
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Christina Sersif 6 years ago
I have a shirt that says mother of cats. Luckily my cats haven't burned down any cities yet.
blugeagua 6 years ago
Not the show’s fault that the general audience couldn’t see how freaking obvious it was that Daenerys was becoming a tyrant for the past several seasons. And now she commits mass genocide as her storyline had predicted for years and people were shocked? Y’all just weren’t paying attention.
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TheExtremeSmell 6 years ago
Psssh imagine them banging. Lightening and ropes
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Creative Username 6 years ago
Then again, kids don't really notice beauty in the same way they do as they get older, so it's hard to tell
L.j. Bus 6 years ago
My nephew (almost two) kept calling me grandpa last time I was there 😅 So not only did I grow older but I changed gender as well 😂 Think it’s because of our glasses, grandma/my mom has glasses too but rarely wears them so I hope he was referring to the glasses grandpa/my father and I wear
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Phoenix VW 6 years ago
Hahahah!! My hubby still has his old clothes from 20 years ago from back in high school!!!! 😝😝😝
THE ULTIMATE PUGTATO >_< 6 years ago (edited)
Gay what? Lol idiot finish your sentences
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BusLady 6 years ago
Poor child would probably never bother drawing pictures.
Load More Replies... Ruth Dereje 5 years ago
THANK GOD I AM ONLY CHILD wait does my older cousin count cause I treat her like a sis uhhhhhh
Phoenix VW 6 years ago
That’s funny though I keep all of my 3 kids drawings when they were little..I want them to have some keepsakes later 😆😆😆
L.j. Bus 6 years ago
I trew away a picture of a friend’s son once because he was just scribbling and drawing wasn’t near finished when he gave it to me (still appreciated it very much) but at the time, well, after a few days, I was like why keep it if even he didn’t think much of it and I still feel guilty to this day, years later 😅
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DancingToMyself 6 years ago
What, nobody likes their kids? And /or spending some time with them!? :/
Kari Panda 6 years ago
I understand if you need time off your kids once in a while, but Father‘s day seems an odd choice. Maybe it’s a cultural difference... (Or maybe I‘m just old-fashioned :D )
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Lizzie the Crayon 6 years ago
Probably a good thing it was a no go on the legos...floor...then feet...then screams because things can hurt. Things do hurt. Legos hurt more than plastic brickes should.
L.j. Bus 6 years ago (edited)
Well, I had the nicest brother ever. He would take my numerous alterations to games like a champ because otherwise he had noone to play with. I did hear him bluntly say (when he was building the house with his gf/wife) he wanted 3 children so his kids could choose who to play with or maybe 4 so noone would be left without so I guess it made a bigger impression on his good soul than I always thought lol
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Ruth Dereje 5 years ago
the kids are me on weekends with Friday include and mom is me on Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Samuel Zhao 3 years ago
It’s kinda a chicken and the egg thing. Do they make you up early because you woke them up early, or vice versa
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Twenty øne doggos 6 years ago
To be fair, those other people are probably people on Instagram...
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Unicorncat767 5 years ago
My dad is a retired UPS pilot, he just retired in April, I grew up with him being gone for a week and home for a week. I missed him so much when he was gone that I would actually cry. I was always so excited or him to come home, even now as an adult I couldn't wait for him to come home especially since he spent the last 10 or so years flying international trips so the only time we could talk was when it was nighttime here in the USA. It was hard having him so far away for two weeks a a time(when I and my two older brothers got older he was gone for longer). I love my dad and I am happy to have more time with I'm. enjoy this throwback picture of me and my dad. I was probably 5 or 6 when this photo was taken. I'm 28 now and still live at home due to poor health(chronic illnesses) and being disabled. B50BB9CF-5...e-jpeg.jpg 
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BusLady 6 years ago
When I travel by plane, I usually just take a carry on. Makes it so much simpler.
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Sleep Meister 6 years ago
I wish my wife was like the latter. She still takes a whole case to herself and then uses half of mine.
Volant Butyrum 6 years ago
My explanation is that for me, weight fluctuates daily so some clothes don't always fit the same depending on the day. There is no way of knowing what will fit when so I prepare for all fitting days. That and my mood...
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Kari Panda 6 years ago
The giving-options-method is so important, not just when raising kids but for dealing with adults as well. Hope an occasional failure doesn’t discourage you :)
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Ina O 6 years ago
I wonder. Children need answers, why not to explain that feces are the remaining of the food without nutrition and even harming to us. Then, search together why it is unhealthy to eat the same species. This is an excellent start for a more meaningful discussion and search, instead of lying that you had had a poop.
Christina Sersif 6 years ago
Simple, peas are food poop and human aren't. You over thunk your logic
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Kari Panda 6 years ago
Was surprised at that, too - the kids look a little too young for that in the other comics.
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Άρης Παπαδόπουλος 6 years ago
For me it's taking turns with my wife while my kid exercises his gills. He doesn't get out of the sea.
Moji Pagoda 5 years ago (edited)
What??? People don’t have gills. Did you use translate...? Or is this a joke...?
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Awkward Manatee 6 years ago
I HID IN THE LOCKERS EVERY SINGLE TIME. The absolute BEST part about swimming!
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Sleep Meister 6 years ago
there is an amazing mode on a phone, silent. best used in this situation
Markéta Podlešáková 6 years ago
But in moments like this man always forgets....
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Lizzie the Crayon 6 years ago
Yeah. Same with Elementary and High School Comparison on the weekends, lol!
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What do you think ?
Kamila Ferens 6 years ago
All these comics only make me more and more sure that I never ever want to have kids. A nightmare.
Lizzie the Crayon 6 years ago
I am not even a parent but I can say my mum could relate to a majority of these!
Random Panda 6 years ago
These are all funny and adorable, but I haven't we seen like five articles about her comics? I have seen all of these on BP before. I'm just a little tired of all the repetitive articles about the same few comic artists circulating here. *braces for downvotes*
Kamila Ferens 6 years ago
All these comics only make me more and more sure that I never ever want to have kids. A nightmare.
Lizzie the Crayon 6 years ago
I am not even a parent but I can say my mum could relate to a majority of these!
Random Panda 6 years ago
These are all funny and adorable, but I haven't we seen like five articles about her comics? I have seen all of these on BP before. I'm just a little tired of all the repetitive articles about the same few comic artists circulating here. *braces for downvotes*
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