Summer has come to an end and many parents have to deal with the headache of letting their kids go back to school in the midst of a pandemic.
Add months and months of homeschooling, mix it with all the family members staying in for what felt like the longest spring of the century, and combine it with the dark and rainy season which is hanging right above our heads.
What you get is the perfect material for Bored Panda’s monthly compilation of the funniest parenting tweets. Scroll down, upvote your faves, and if you’re still hungry for more funny remarks, brutally honest tweets, and wisdom bites kids have shared with their parents, check out our earlier posts here: July, May, April, March, and February.
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As the oldest of six Id very often be asked to help. I learned around age 5 as soon as I heard my name to run to the closet and hide with a book. By age 8 I had a little library in closet. I thought I was so clever but seeing as I never got in trouble I'm sure my parents were in on it.
Protip for new parents: don't play the floor is lava in the family home.
Bored Panda reached out to Anita Cleare, a parenting expert and author of "The Work/Parent Switch", who agreed to share her insights on parenting during these uncertain times. Because we’re all trying to make it work at home, in reality, things are not going as smoothly as we’d like them to.
Anita said that for many people, “Not knowing what is going to happen is really stressful. And it makes it hard to plan and get organized—something that working parents desperately need to do in order to meet all our commitments.”
Since there are no givens about what will or won’t happen in the next few months, many parents find themselves in a nerve-wracking situation. “Schools might be open but they could close at a moment’s notice. That day out with her friends that your daughter is looking forward to? It might be canceled, who knows,” the parenting expert explained.
Anita also said that parents are used to controlling the controllables and making the world safe and fun for our kids. However, right now, there is so much we can’t control. “The only way to get through this is to focus on what we can control, the little things. Small routines and traditions that we do every day or every week with our kids to make them feel safe.”
Change the password and set the wifi name to "Should have turned down the music"
Anita suggests starting small. “Like always saying goodnight to them using the same words. Making pancakes together on a Saturday morning. Playing a family board game on a Sunday afternoon. Snuggling up for a story together every evening.”
When the big stuff is out of control, “focusing on the little things that make a big difference will make us all a lot calmer, and we will be able to support our children to feel more secure too,” the parenting expert concluded.
Because a trusting relationship with your children is based upon a constant surveillance... And no it doesn't help them if they are kidnapped because kidnappers ditch the phone.
Life hack- stack your doughnuts on top of each other and call it super doughnut
Having just had a front tooth implant, apparently a significant number of mums have root canals from toddlers smashing them in the face with various objects. Yes my toddler head butted me, I got a root canal, then my tooth got brittle and finally splintered needing an implant to fix
my wife is from southern France, and lives now on the east...she still calls her favorite kind of pastry "chocolatine" but here, everybody knows that the correct name is "pain de chocolat" :-)
My mother-in-law taught my husband that the end pieces are poisonous. 50 years later and he will still not eat them.
My dad used to say it made your hair curly. I have curly hair already! So I just save my end pieces in the freezer until I have enough to make bread pudding!
Load More Replies...In Wales we say the crusts give you curls. Kids loved curly hair in my youth.
my 4 year old will not eat bread crusts...but give him an end piece peanut butter and jelly sandwich and the whole thing gets scarfed
solution, buy uncut bread, slice the ends off, the sides off and the top and bottom off, cut the tops and bottoms into three pieces and then use the insides for sandwiches and all the other parts for scarfing :P
Load More Replies...In our house: close to 0% because everyone wants the end pieces. I am talking about German bread, by the way.
We used to fight over them when I was a kid. Me, my brother and my mum - dad didn't he just ate the bread while we fought
I never liked them, but my mom did, so she ate them. Now I force myself to eat them, lol.
RIP to those dads who grew up ripping the crust off of their sandwiches.
When my daughter found out about the tooth fairy she chuckled. I asked her what was so funny and she said "Well Dad, I'm imagining you wearing a pink tut and glittery wings prancing about" I'm a bit on the chubby side.
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Why does every post need to include anti Trump rhetoric? Can't things just be neutral. ( post number one)
Why does every post need to include anti Trump rhetoric? Can't things just be neutral. ( post number one)