Life as a parent is full of precious moments. There are, of course, all the firsts: the first words, the first steps, and the first days of school. But if we’re completely honest, there’s also that gorgeous first cup of tea you’re finally allowed to enjoy alone on the couch once the house is quietly asleep.
Because if my parent friends have taught me anything, parenting is not for the faint of heart—or anyone particularly fond of sleep. Privacy, it seems, comes at a premium (you might be years away from using the bathroom alone), and you have no choice but to keep up with the seemingly boundless bundle of energy you somehow created—a fact that seems equal parts amazing and baffling when you can barely keep your own eyes open.
But in between all the chaos and exhaustion, there are moments of pure comedy gold. We’re talking about the bizarre questions, the kid logic that somehow makes perfect sense, the completely unfiltered observations, and even the everyday mishaps that might take a little more time to laugh about. And luckily for us, some parents aren’t keeping them to themselves.
This month was no exception, with plenty of parents sharing the funny side of life with kids. So whether you’re negotiating with a tiny human or simply wondering how parents do it, scroll on for some of the month’s funniest parenting tweets.
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Now this sounds like the sort of thing women go looking for when trying too find a mom group.
Parents: why don't you want kids?? Kids are FANTASTIC! Also parents:
I work at a natural history museum. It’s one of the reasons I don’t want kids.
boys get to be nurses.. they are gonna marry a doctor if they are lucky. that fancy education is useless./s
I can imagine the kiddo saying to his preschool teacher how he loves eating "sugar mushrooms" and the teacher freaking out haha!
My friends with twins gave up on the basement carpet and considered it an 18-year wear layer. They replaced that carpet right on schedule.
Usually, when siblings act too nicely and in sync you got to start being scared haha!
ADHD meds have helped me so much, I’ve been using them for around 3 years!
On the elevator I said that to my neighbor's daughter (age 3, yawning) and she came over and stomped on my toe in her best "Who asked you!" fashion.
Our daughter would make up stuff, and her teachers believed her!! It made for a very awkward parent-teacher meeting, I can tell you.
Wait until they poóp on the potty, you'll be crowing from the rooftops how amazing it is.
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me. Hangin' out the passenger side on his best friend's ride. Tryin' to holla at me
Mine calls it her “soup costume” 😂 I think Peppa Pig calls it a swim costume or something similar
Newborns' systems are adapting to life outside the womb. Newbie brains and bodies are constantly growing, so the way baby reacts to things at this stage can be wildly different from day to day.
My son had a huge list of instructions for how the sauce was not to touch the spaghetti from age 3.5 to 5. And then one day he told me, "Just put it on top, all together. That's how my friend Nikos eats it." I remember the simultaneous rage and gratitude I felt to this day...
Which you will spend worrying yourself sick about exactly *what* your kid is doing being so quiet there...
I can still see the baffled look on my mom's face when she found me slow rolling through the house at age 12 chanting, “Ooga chaka, hooga hooga. Ooga chaka, hooga hooga…”
Look at the bright side, you you don't have to save money for Harvard for this one
Do what I do, just stop calling the "pants" and start calling them "capris".
Oh, that summer we picked over 200 quarts of wild huckleberries and sold them. We had plenty of wild blackberries and strawberries and raspberries. We also had an ice cream freezer...
Good on him for actually serving on a jury! I've been called up about five times, never made it onto a panel.
The restaurant at the Art Museum in Long Beach, California? Lovely setting, but might be disturbing to the other patrons...
I don't know, I did all the studies and I still don't feel like an adult...
This knowledge constitutes blackmail material in suburbia. (And the heathen deserves it!)
Poll is a survey of people. Pole is what I give your mom.
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