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.
Till your kids are an adult and responsible for their own actions, parents are there to PARENT!!!! this includes checking on them, teaching them and.... Down vote and yell at me... Punish them. I dont talk about violence. I never slapped my guy even once, but I had other tools. No WiFi, PlayStation, garden work And And and. S****y work you can find everywhere. And basically. Teens don't like any work.
Load More Replies...I'm a single mom with two teenage girls we all have tracking on where the others are it's not stalking it's about being safe. Besides if you are where you said you would be there is no issue.
My Mum taught me to not lie about where I was because if there was an issue, she may think I am in that issue if it was where I was meant to be, or not know I was in an issue if I was somewhere else. I won't say I never steered off the path when I was 16+ but as a young kid I stuck to that. I think a Mum caring to know where her child is is not considered stalking just making sure they are safe, but a 16 year old down here is in some cases holding a full time job. This Mum has reasons, obviously.
I busted my daughter once. We get a text around 10am if your child isn’t at school and no-one has notified of an absence. Well I got a text one day saying my daughter wasn’t at school even though she was meant to. I called her and discovered she was at McDonalds and was planning on wagging with some friends. Well when she heard my wrath she went straight to school.
Sorry but I am totally against tracking. It's stalking even if you mean well.
It's not stalking if you are trying to keep track of YOUR OWN child. It's called responsible parenting...
Load More Replies...I understand everyone's point but each of them make me a little sad. This is the wonderful world we live in.
Hack for kids: Leave your phone where ever you said you would be. Then parents think you are fine. Then, do as you please. (If you said you were at the library - turn in your phone to Lost and Found - then "find" it later) My childhood would have been so different if my parents had been tracking everything I did.
Yeah like any kid would leave their phone behind.
Load More Replies...I'm starting this by saying I raised 3 boys, almost single handedly because their dad was away with work a lot. I know what it's like!! We had huge problems with our eldest. My husband & I had many godawful times, at one point we were just waiting for that phone call from the police saying his body was in a ditch. Our son would go on walks & not come home for hours, he would cut himself & smoke but we NEVER tracked him. We talked to him about trust & treated each other with respect. I built a great relationship with him & told him he could tell me anything & I would never judge. He could call at 3am for a lift & we would be there. And we proved that many times. It was so hard at but you have to trust that you instilled decent qualities. Checking in occasionally with your child is fine.Tracking your child is not! It's the lazy way & just builds mistrust in everyone. This kid has probably had his every move monitored all his life, no wonder he's breaking free now.
Aaaand I will take this as another opportunity to thank the universe for being born in the 70s. A whole childhood and puberty free from constant supervision - wohooo!!!
How would you feel if someone "tracked" you wherever you went? Like.. stalked, maybe? Like not trusted? Let your kids have some privacy and teach them to be sensible and responsible. Raise them right and you won't need to monitor their every move. Your trust and respect will be returned and repaid many times in the future.
I agree it can be taken too far. I have different policies for each of my kids . One of them needed more checking up on than the others . One I barely checked on because she was 100% honest with me all the time. I'd say I'd checked out her activity four times in two years . I'd check just enough to see that she was still being safe online . I didn't want her secrets , I wanted her safety. She understands that . You only ever cross that line and get in their personal business if you have to . Otherwise they're entitled to their secrets . Her sister on the other hand , was putting herself in dangerous positions often. It was a matter of her safety that we had to cross that line more often . It should never be done without a reason
I find that appalling behaviour, if you did a good job they wouldn't need to lie to you and you would trust them to go to places you don't like.
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)