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"
Uhg not every husband is like this. I know it's common for Boomer generations but not for some younger ones. I cook almost as much as my wife does and we always trade chores. If she cooks, I clean; if I cook, she cleans. And we always wait until everyone sits (even if in front of the TV) before anyone eats. It's a sign if respect and just good manners.
I'm about as Boomer as one can get, and everything you've said holds true for our household as well - and those of our Boomer friends. Boomer, shmoomer.
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So true, I am always the last to eat coz I have to sort everyone else out first.
I don't think I've sat down in 10 yrs. eating over the sink has become the norm while my kids and husband sit lol
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My mom made SURE I knew how to cook before I ever left home for college. I was single for six years after I left home. Note to all single guys out there that are now engaged to be married, learn to cook your future wife's favorite dishes from HER MOTHER. Your wife will love you for it and her mother will love you even more. Even if you don't actually wind up married, you learned something new for yourself. My wife and I celebrated 42 years this past February. We are both retired now, but when we were both working, I usually got off work before my wife. This allowed me to get home and start supper and check on the kids and my wife's mom, who lived with us after her dad passed away.
I hate this stereotype. I make literally every meal in my house. And you know what? I'm proud and happy to feed my family and watch them enjoy it regardless of when I get to eat or if my food is cold. This is an outdated, stupid joke.
For lots of people, it's still a reality. Women aren't respected everywhere, Ben. You can just sit there for doing what every man SHOULD do.
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I do not understand the logic of this and I'm a married woman with 3 kids. If Goldilocks arrived at a certain time at the bears house (they went for a walk) and the food had different temperatures that means that the mom filled first her plate, then she filled the baby's and last, the papa bear's plate (assuming it was her that cooked and filled the plates). I never put food for me first (actually, I leave my plate last to be sure everyone else has enough).
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" :-)
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)
