30 Of The Best Parenting Tweets Of The Month (August Edition)
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" :-)
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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March 20th, 2010 my world stopped moving.. My mother died.. March 10th 2010, her and I had a fight. and I told her I wish she was dead. I got my wish, and will spend the rest of my life regretting those days.. I miss my mom every day. I wish I was dead, and not her.
*pats on the head with broom for safety* You should be wishing for you both to be alive and I'm sorry for your loss
I'm sorry honey. Unfortunately life throws the meanest, hardest curve balls sometimes... But I'd be willing to bet Mom wouldn't be happy with what you said. Make her proud and live on my friend.
My world stopped. Exact same reason. I don't know if I said I wish she was dead, but I do know that the fight we had was the reason she was on the bicycle when she was hit and killed. It took me years to realize and accept that ultimately it wasn't my fault and that she would be very mad at me for taking that on. I hope you come to that realization and learn to forgive and acknowledge you're human.
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Helen Haley ?
pandasaurx3 +
I'm sorry you didn't get to mend things over with your mom. Prayers for you.
Sandra Mendoza Good response!
I am so sorry your mom died. My mom died in 1975. The day after her 51st birthday. She had breast cancer. Before she died I went to her and told her how much I loved her, what a great Mom she was, and thanked her for all the wonderful things she did and how much I appreciated her and that there was nothing in our past that I was upset about. I did this because I knew, even then, that the two saddest words in the English language are "IF ONLY." As in "if only I had told them" or "if only we had done such and such" or "if only I had....." When she died, I cried, I missed her, I still miss her, but I did not grieve for the things unsaid.
That's very wise, Lara.
I can't imagine carrying that level of guilt. I'm so sorry you are experiencing this. As a mom myself, I know my kids love me and it doesn't matter what they say. It wouldn't matter even if they didn't love me though because my greatest wish in life is that they are happy and safe. All good moms feel this way and I'm sure your mom was no different. **hugs** to you.
Not the same but my dog died of heatfaliure in 2017. He used to make this hacking cough noise that was pretty annoying to us all especially since he would do it at all hours of the night. His last day alive he just ran under the bed and coughed all day. We just ignored him until later that night we realized he had not eaten or drink anything all day. We got him out from under the bed to find him panting heavily with his tounge white. We took him to a 24 hour care center and they told us he would be put on oxygen and monitored over night until a doctor could see him in the morning. He died at 1:13am. He was with us for 18 years and neither my wife or I got to say goodbye. We ignored him all day and then just left him to die alone. Be nice everyday because you just don't know how it will end. I'm sure you're mom knows you love her and would want you to live your best life and not hold onto regrets. The love you lost can be given to others.
My 12 year old Pyrenees mix does this weird noise that sounds like a cross between a cat coughing up a hairball and just a regular cough. He does it maybe once or twice a day. I hadn't really thought much about until now. Now I'm freaking out a little.
I cannot believe that you let that pup suffer all day because he was "coughing" and it "irritated you" until you "realized" he hadn't eaten or drunk anything all day. I am just horrified at this. I hope you NEVER get another pup. I wish I had never read this. The MOMENT that pup started coughing I would have had him at the vet. And he would not have suffered like that.
*air hugs* I'm so sorry for your loss:'(
Cat Nip Gal -
soulreaper2557 lol
Once my son ran down the hall and turned the corner to quick and hit the wall. I said "didn't you see the wall" and he said "I hit it, didn't I?" He was nine.
Why is this list like 90% unicorn dad?
March 20th, 2010 my world stopped moving.. My mother died.. March 10th 2010, her and I had a fight. and I told her I wish she was dead. I got my wish, and will spend the rest of my life regretting those days.. I miss my mom every day. I wish I was dead, and not her.
*pats on the head with broom for safety* You should be wishing for you both to be alive and I'm sorry for your loss
I'm sorry honey. Unfortunately life throws the meanest, hardest curve balls sometimes... But I'd be willing to bet Mom wouldn't be happy with what you said. Make her proud and live on my friend.
My world stopped. Exact same reason. I don't know if I said I wish she was dead, but I do know that the fight we had was the reason she was on the bicycle when she was hit and killed. It took me years to realize and accept that ultimately it wasn't my fault and that she would be very mad at me for taking that on. I hope you come to that realization and learn to forgive and acknowledge you're human.
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Helen Haley ?
pandasaurx3 +
I'm sorry you didn't get to mend things over with your mom. Prayers for you.
Sandra Mendoza Good response!
I am so sorry your mom died. My mom died in 1975. The day after her 51st birthday. She had breast cancer. Before she died I went to her and told her how much I loved her, what a great Mom she was, and thanked her for all the wonderful things she did and how much I appreciated her and that there was nothing in our past that I was upset about. I did this because I knew, even then, that the two saddest words in the English language are "IF ONLY." As in "if only I had told them" or "if only we had done such and such" or "if only I had....." When she died, I cried, I missed her, I still miss her, but I did not grieve for the things unsaid.
That's very wise, Lara.
I can't imagine carrying that level of guilt. I'm so sorry you are experiencing this. As a mom myself, I know my kids love me and it doesn't matter what they say. It wouldn't matter even if they didn't love me though because my greatest wish in life is that they are happy and safe. All good moms feel this way and I'm sure your mom was no different. **hugs** to you.
Not the same but my dog died of heatfaliure in 2017. He used to make this hacking cough noise that was pretty annoying to us all especially since he would do it at all hours of the night. His last day alive he just ran under the bed and coughed all day. We just ignored him until later that night we realized he had not eaten or drink anything all day. We got him out from under the bed to find him panting heavily with his tounge white. We took him to a 24 hour care center and they told us he would be put on oxygen and monitored over night until a doctor could see him in the morning. He died at 1:13am. He was with us for 18 years and neither my wife or I got to say goodbye. We ignored him all day and then just left him to die alone. Be nice everyday because you just don't know how it will end. I'm sure you're mom knows you love her and would want you to live your best life and not hold onto regrets. The love you lost can be given to others.
My 12 year old Pyrenees mix does this weird noise that sounds like a cross between a cat coughing up a hairball and just a regular cough. He does it maybe once or twice a day. I hadn't really thought much about until now. Now I'm freaking out a little.
I cannot believe that you let that pup suffer all day because he was "coughing" and it "irritated you" until you "realized" he hadn't eaten or drunk anything all day. I am just horrified at this. I hope you NEVER get another pup. I wish I had never read this. The MOMENT that pup started coughing I would have had him at the vet. And he would not have suffered like that.
*air hugs* I'm so sorry for your loss:'(
Cat Nip Gal -
soulreaper2557 lol
Once my son ran down the hall and turned the corner to quick and hit the wall. I said "didn't you see the wall" and he said "I hit it, didn't I?" He was nine.
Why is this list like 90% unicorn dad?