It’s Time For The Best Parenting Tweets Of The Month, And Here Are The Best Ones This July (50 Pics)
Sunny weather may bring brighter moods, but whether we're talking about family vacations or everyday life, moms and dads are still at work — raising their kids. Thankfully, there's Twitter, where parents can find comfort in each other's joys and struggles.
So laugh along with them as we at Bored Panda continue our series on the funniest parenting tweets of the month. For more, fire up our earlier lists: June, May, April.
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I'm glad she gives herself credit for "getting these 3 things done". That's plenty. She deserves a break now.
Real world example of I'm rubber and your glue and whatever you say bounces off me an sticks to you!
Great Point-and-click. For those who didn't know, The Secret of Monkey Island.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of a funny meme where the guy tells the girl that there's no one like her. She's an identical twin 😅
If this is what it’s like to have a twin, I may have reabsorbed my twin in utero
"As many as you can" she says. She returns home to find only one. The Ultimate Sister. (I have 5 younger sisters, but I've been able to keep them and my 3 little brothers alive. My record is 2 days straight).
I hope theyve given you a trophy.... It sounds like you deserve one!
Load More Replies...After such a long time isolating at home, summer, with all the outdoor activities it has to offer, is like a blessing. A warm, fleeting blessing, begging to be enjoyed. However, taking your kid to a public place and getting them to behave can be tricky.
Parents have a lot of tricks up their sleeves to make it work. But every now and then, they also need to discipline their kids.
John Adams, a dad of two and the man behind multi-award-winning parenting and fatherhood blog DadBlogUK, told Bored Panda: "Discipline in a family is important, but you do have to find a balance between allowing your child to learn from their mistakes and making clear when they have done something very wrong [but] if a child hits another child or bunks a lesson from school, they have to be punished so they know there are consequences to their actions."
Next time my husband can't find his wallet I'll tell him there's weed in it!
Second easiest are the ones you hand back when you've had enough fun
Load More Replies...So true, you make lofty plans, then you immediately throw them out the window in an attempt to survive.
It’s true , www.wveryone has the expertise until the little people arrive
If you’re stupid maybe. Otherwise you’d have known it wasn’t easy before you got pregnant.
Anyone who says there’s one right way to raise a kid...doesn’t have kids. Every generation there’s a book or movement on the “very best and only right” way to raise a child. Spank, don’t spank. Formula, no formula. Sleep on stomach, sleep on back. Etc etc etc. I have strong feelings about each of those and more. So did previous generations. Get this...the right way to raise your child is what’s right for them. And don’t be surprised if it’s different for each of your kids.
I agree. Except for one thing: NEVER spank a kid. 😡
Load More Replies...When I was about four years old I went into the kitchen at my Aunt's house (where our family was visiting) and saw a large chunk of meat on the counter. I asked my mom what it was and she replied: "Leg of lamb, it's for supper". I immediately started sobbing: "Put the leg back on the lamb, put the leg back on the lamb!" (At the time I had this picture in my mind of a huge herd of three-legged amputee lambs hobbling about in a field :D ). My mom couldn't console me, so eventually she said: "Don't worry, this is 'Eating Lamb' from the butcher and not 'Baa Lamb' from the field." Apparently I was extremely satisfied with that reasoning and cheered up after that.
Quick thinking mama to the rescue! But I could see how that would traumatic for a little kid.
Load More Replies...My toddler had a meltdown and mourning period this afternoon for her shoe she left in the car…I asked if I could get the shoe for her and was met with a swift ‘NO!’ - she needed a nap. The answer is always a nap 😂
YEP NAP is the answer... You need a nap - Mommy is tired.
Load More Replies...I just read an article that kids at a certain age can not not cry. Stress hormones are build up during the day. Broken Cookie Syndrome
Honestly, I have often had Broken Cookie Syndrome as an adult
Load More Replies...Oh, i do acknowledge their feelings. It's just sometimes i don't care, as sometimes there are other things that has higher priorities than their feelings. My daughter getting angry at me because i didn't let her watching Netflix all day long without doing her study and chores is an example. Or when she tried to justify that she was being rude because she wasn't feeling well. Being ill does not give anyone the right to be an a****le.
This is the sort of nonsense non-parents with stupid degrees tell real parents because no books actually prepares you for some of the nonsense kids come out with!
I remember one of my daughters once woke up cheerfully and perfectly fine. Then she had a tantrum because I gave her her milk with the wrong hand! (Note: she had not mentioned that she wanted the milk given with the right hand, not the left).
Good time to teach about practical vs. impractical expectations and desires without breaking their dreams that they can be anything still.
Adams also pointed out that the definition of discipline changes as a child gets older.
"If you're having to discipline a young child, you're probably telling them off for walking too close to the edge of a road, for taking a dangerous risk at a swimming pool or something like that. With older children, it can be about giving guidance. Why is it they always seem to get in trouble with the one school friend? Why did they think it was acceptable to light up a cigarette in front of a school teacher? Shouting will achieve nothing in those circumstances when a child needs guidance and if anything, could damage your relationship," the dad explained. "The one thing my wife and I have never done is hit our children. It simply isn't necessary and sends such a bad message to your child."
He's right. The American Academy of Pediatrics (APP) advises that parents and caregivers should not spank or hit children. Instead of teaching responsibility and self-control, spanking actually does the opposite: it often increases aggression and anger in children. A study of children born in 20 medium to large U.S. cities discovered that families who used physical punishment got caught in a negative cycle: the more children were spanked, the more they misbehaved later, which prompted more spankings in response. Spanking’s effects may also be felt beyond the parent-child relationship — it sends the message that causing someone pain is OK if you’re frustrated. Even with those you love.
And hopefully a lesson that there are times when mommy needs to apologize because you just did.
You have kids AND a cat and you still can't tell who is the most evil among them ?
My mom once yelled at us for eating all the goldfish, but later found out my dad snuck them upstairs at night and ate the entire container of them.
That one makes me sad. Imagine being screamed at every morning for weeks, worse when you didn‘t even do anything.
Sounds just like my mom. "It wasn't me" means absolute nothing to her.
Load More Replies...I'm sure this was the cat's plan to get rid of the kids
Load More Replies...I ran around telling people my mom chained me to the radiator when I was bad. The reason she had me stand near the radiator, whilst being on a timeout, was for me to still be warm.
This. I don’t pack my kid chips or cookies for snack… teacher then gave him cookies because she will never let a child go hungry. I was basically like, check his lunchbox; he’s not hungry he’s FOS. She didn’t stop. I then started packing him the cookies she gave him because I felt shame knowing someone else was feeding my kid and I have the means to do it myself. Her intentions were good… but completely undermined my parenting.
That doesn't sound like a great teacher. If you don't want your kid eating snacks, you have the right to not allow him to eat snacks.
Load More Replies...LOL Kids, gotta love 'em! When I was in second grade I told my teacher that my parents force me to watch scary movies. Teacher calls my mom in for a chat. My mom was mortified bc they didn't let me watch scary movies. My dumba** just had a very overactive imagination. After I would be tucked into bed, my parents would watch a movie or something. I would hear the music from whatever they were watching and imagine a scary tale. My parents do not like nor watch scary movies still to this day lol
Sometimes, listening to the music, without seeing or knowing what the movie is about, is scarier than watching the actual movie!
Load More Replies...Once when i was a kid my father stucked the car on the driveway which was under construction and he made an apology letter for me being late for school. In this letter he mentionned that i didn't lost my morning because he probably teached me a lot of new "words", cursing words. My teacher's face reading it was epic, a mix of sorry and helplessness. No social worker showed up.
My son did this, he was a poor student, never studied, when his teacher asked him about his grades, he lied and said we weren’t feeding him, guess who came knocking at the door
During Career Day, kids told the class what their parents do for a living. My son says "My mom just hangs out in a bar all day". (I worked as a bartender ) Waited all night for CPS to show up.
When my sister was about 4, my mom told her she couldn't have a popsicle before dinner. So she went outside and told a neighbor, "my mommy won't give me any food."
And sticks. Once I brought my 9yo to spectacular tantrum after breaking his special stick
Or torn cardboard boxes, empty bottles they use as rockets, junk mail that is their "treasure map". You just ... you accept a LOT.
~And, hopefully, enjoy their imagination and creativeness.....
Load More Replies...Oh honey, I'm 50 and I can't go once to the beach and not bring some rocks back! And I live by a lake! They'll need a wheelbarrow to take the rocks out when I'm dead! lol
I still remember my vacation to North Carolina; I stayed by the beach for that week, and I'd constantly go out and collect some cool shells, rocks, and other things. I came home with enough to fill a whole bag - some of the most interesting things I found included a broken conch shell, a hatched "mermaid's purse" shark egg, a sand dollar, and what seemed to be part of an animal shell.
Load More Replies...Mine used my cargo pockets to store all the rocks and such that she found when we were out. I drew the line at anything alive.
My youngest at 4 still does this. Especially when upset, or even if I'm just getting dressed he'll launch himself across the room to touch a boob. So much like his daddy
My cat would do that to my husband! He loved to curl up in my arms like a baby and rest his head on my shoulder but put his long arms through my tank top and onto my boob. It was cute until he started needing...
My nephew was so possessive of my sister- anytime her husband would kiss her he would get so angry & push his dad away. Sometimes they would it just to get a reaction from him to laugh. I mean kids are basically entertainment
Good thing you can teach him to take up an appropriate amount of space then :)
I used to watch TV lying with my head hanging down off the couch/chair. Life seemed more interesting upside down :)
I used to watch TV, sitting in the most weird positions that I can't even describe! if I try that now I'm gonna need an ambulance!
Load More Replies...Reminds me how surprised I was to see that men and women subconsciously react differently (although I completely understand why now) when an object is tossed toward their laps while they are sitting down.
Yes? I don't know what men do, but I snap my legs closed so I can catch it wth my knees. Except when it's something disgusting, then I make sure to avoid touching it.
Load More Replies...This is a small child horsing around on a chair.
Load More Replies...It took a lot of practice, but I can finally eat ice cream without getting messy!!
my mum was able to tell that I secretly had ice cream in the winter (I wasn't allowed to) because I came home always with a stain
Load More Replies...The worst is having to help them eat their ice cream when it's melting all over and the cone is a soggy hot mess
how is this not known - if they have parental words in their twitter name, they are lying.
I hope you don't live by this logic, Nizzle???
Load More Replies...If you have kids there’s even a five o clock, if you’re lucky
Load More Replies...So true. I won't get up before 9am, and my dad won't leave the house after 4pm.
Cute - but you have now taught your kids not to trust you. Once they realize you lied, everything you say will be questioned. My mother liked to do that - I totally stopped trusting her word before I was 7. She never could regain it - lying was too easy for her.
Sorry for what happened to you. However, I'm more concerned about the "laughing at strangers" part.
Load More Replies...My husband told his kids that they I've cream truck only rang when it was out of ice cream. We moved to a new town and here and new friend saw one cream truck. To her dismay, it was ringing, she informed said friend that it was out of ice cream; she hasn't forgave him😆 it's been 4 years
When the ice cream truck was in our street, we told the children that the driver rang the bell and played the irritating music to signify that all the ice cream had already been sold. Saved us a fortune.
Lying to your kids will never be a substitute for establishing boundaries and teaching them the world "no". Also, it won't kill you to buy your kid a chocolate bar once in awhile.
Downvoted because my kids ALWAYS get pretty much whatever they want so sometimes I DO say NO to them because they eat chocolate bars ALL THE TIME. You clearly don’t have kids.
Load More Replies...Funny... my two dogs act exactly the same way!! I've heard most dogs have the intelligence of an average toddler, so I guess it makes sense.
My daughter's favorite toy is whatever of mine I just told her she couldn't play with. Lol
My cat is the same with other animals' food, even when the other animal is a rabbit munching on leafy greens!
when I was a kid every animal in the city was either cat or dog! in the countryside all animals were goats! I made everything simpler
Load More Replies...WildBerry - literally every one of your comments is dumber than the last.
Literally, every one of your comments is meaner than the last... Sure wish you would STFU.!
Load More Replies...Looks like a tank so truck is an excellent guess. Good luck with the platypus.
I'm pretty sure that the only reason I knew about the existence of platypi when I was younger is because of the show "Phineas and Ferb". Even then, I still thought Perry was a fictional animal called a "beaver-duck" for a little while.
Load More Replies...My fave window moment was when I had a day trip to hospital and had my son with me. It was a hot summer day, and we were near the university so lots of students walking around. Son looks out the window: "cars!"....."GIRLS!"
It's "Rocky" the walking rock. That would be a fun game: Giving odd, descriptive names to all the various creatures seen at the zoo. Lotsa laughs.
That's pretty apt for what words she has and what she sees... it looks like a rock, but it's moving forward like a truck 🚚
When I was 1 i was like attached to my mother. When she went to work I was like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I hated my father those days.
I couldn't get out at our school drop this morning, because I realized I was still wearing pajama bottoms with my sneakers when we stopped. ..
It's the new Walk of Shame...parent edition.
Load More Replies...Haha! I love this kid already. Marinara trench...... This kid is going places
Mine tells me there's nothing in the house to eat and I'm letting her starve. There is not nothing in the house to eat, btw.
Wow. Very much a little drama queen, eh? She can make a sandwich if she's so hungry. Or she can go on a scavenger hunt for food if she can't have sandwiches.
Load More Replies...Laser tag with anyone below the age of ten is a nightmare. I feel bad for everyone else at the arena.
Could’ve been playing laser tag at home, guys. Chill. It exists!! No laser place is letting a 3 year old play. They don’t make equipment that small.
Load More Replies...This makes me think of my great aunt who worked with children and teens her whole life, and was the most vital old person I've ever known. I remember once, she was seventy-something and she climbed into a tree house I was afraid to climb into at eight years old. She claimed that working with kids had kept her mind young. So maybe the secret is working with other people's kids.
Come on. How long since you haven't been able to read an adult book, seen an adult movie or have a conversation about any adult topic ? See ?
Oddly, working with preschoolers keeps me feeling quite young. But then I go home to my crazy life and my teenagers and feel old again.
My uncle said my aunt made him grey. The two daughters made him bald. Lol
Load More Replies...Yeah...tell that to all my "wisdom highlights" (grey hairs). LOL
But sometimes it is true. My mom is 62, I have elder siblings age 36-42yrs old. Me is 23yrs old and my mom wants to relate to the stuff I do and like. Little bit embarassing but I think the head of my mother is around 28yrs old. I keep her young. Unvolotary...
I apparently told dad I wouldn't hold his hand when we were on a bush walk because if he fell off the edge he would take me with him. Im not a fan of bush walks 😅
Or when you have to carry a 50lb child 1/4 of a mile because they refuse to walk anymore
My young grandchild picked up the word "Nemesis" from video games I believe. There ain't no more enemies out there. They are his nemesis.
If they watch Phineas and Ferb they might have gotten it from there. Doofensmirtz is Perry’s nemesis and they actually have a song in one episode called ‘My Nemesis’.
Load More Replies...At least your child isn’t trying to beat them with a plastic chair. Like SOMEONE i know. *cough, younger brother, cough*
Or sticky. Everything in my house is always mysteriously sticky. Like wtf ?
And now your socks are wet. Don't ask what it was, you do not want to know.
Unless.....he WANTED to be carried that way. Then you HAVE to do it that way.
Oh yes, it occurred to me early on that how I treat their stuffies and baby dolls will make an impression on them and their trust in me.
My mother washed my teddy and hung him on the line to dry. By his ears!!!! Yes I know it 1960. No am not over it yet.
Well if you carry your child this way, why not the bear as well?
Well..., if you don't want them picking up the cat or the dog like that, and demonstrate it with their stuffed animals. At least the kid is showing empathy and concern, even though he doesn't realize it's just a stuffed animal, lol
My twenty seven year old screamed at me because I told the doctor she used some of my (identical to hers) prescription. "Those phone calls are recorded!"
Well, the future leaders definitely can't get any worse than the clowns we're dealing with now.. *Cough, COugh, DOnald duck-trump and Jeff Bozo*
Donald Trump wasn't a leader when you typed this.. what are you whining about?
Load More Replies...Once when my little sister was super young she ate all the blackberries (none were ripe) off of our tree in the back, then got made they were all gone. That bush never grew berries again, oddly enough.
I got really mad one time because somebody finished my fifth of bourbon. My roommate was like "You drank it" and I said "I don't remember....oh."
My son had a famous YouTuber from our area over at a party, she kept following me around, I seriously wanted to punch her in the face. 2 mil followers, for the dumbest videos I've ever seen
Don't scrap the party! No party means no cake. Only scrap the invites!
Load More Replies...When my son was younger he would go to birthday parties and when I picked him up the most common thing I was told was that he ate nothing. To this day (he will be 21 soon) my son has never had a soft drink/soda and this is despite my efforts to curb my own consumption.
Not a YouTuber: D**k Van Dyke. One of our 2.5 yo is obsessed! Wants a D**k Van Dyke birthday party! Asked us if D**k Van Dyke can come over and sit on the couch with her, eat goldfish, and read stories to her. Specifically, "Mispacha" (Hebrew for family).
This Bored Panda censorship algorithm is beyond absurd.
Load More Replies...No, we just sell lemonade. But it's cold and it's fresh and it's all home-made. Can I get you glass? ... NGL I love this song I watched this over and over with my son. My wife wasn't happy.
Load More Replies...My son is 16 now, and starting at at 2 he loved infomercials, he would wake up and put on that stupid infomercial channel, at age 4 he asked Santa for a nutra bullet, at 5 a George foreman grill, at 6 a retractable sun shade, and now at 16 I can safely say he is old enough to buy his own dang MY pillow and please stop following me and telling me my neck is out of alignment when I sleep!
My brother is 6 and obsessed with Minecraft youtubers. It makes him insanely crazy and idek why.
I don't trust people who are fans of recent MCYTs... that's probably one of the most toxic fanbases ever.
Load More Replies...*Looks away sheepishly because if how much I annoyed by mother watching DanTDM as a young child*
That whole family needs to never be heard from again.
Load More Replies...My dad's friend from work has admitted that her daughter is obsessed with YouTube videos like that... and many of them have lines like "Will we get away from the ghost? Help us, subscribers!"
On vacation, 2 beds in the hotel room, next morning the kid starts talking about not sleeping b/c "someone" was snoring. Kid gave me the death stare and I 100% took the hit even though I was awake for the same reason.
Or when your 21 year old calls you from a festival and starts with “mom, don’t get worried but...”
Or calls saying, "Mom, don't be mad, but..." My son is 19 and whenever he pauses after saying "Mom...," I immediately panic.
Load More Replies...I once got T-boned by a teenager and she got out of her car and called her mom... Her words were (verbatim): "Mom, it happened again I swear I wasn't even drunk this time". So things could be worse.
Or ANY of your children calling you in the middle of the night and you immediately hyper-focus to hear if they are crying or screaming or breathing hard or....
I once accidentally dialed my mum somehow when my phone was inside my bag in the car. She heard Steve Tyler singing and concluded this was the sound of me being murdered, and panicked.
Load More Replies...Considering my dad is an actor specializing in improv, I can confirm this is true.
So were you born with your head up your a$$ or did it just migrate there
Load More Replies...Never underestimate a sparrow. The ones in the town centre where I am are bold, one once hovered like a hummingbird for a moment and tried to take my sandwich!
Load More Replies...THE CHILD IS 5! My seven year old sister says leaderboard as lead list.
Load More Replies...Us dads are doing an experiment. We wanna see what's stronger, our children's willpower or our better half's patience with our.. energy efficiency. Yeah, that sounds better than laziness
Load More Replies...My son does this, he will spill something over and I'm like " quick pick it up! Grab a cloth" don't just stand back and stare at it!
Omg yes! I have said the same thing! Why do they just watch it soak in?
Load More Replies...Newton's Law 4.5: Once moved by Mom, said object will naturally return to it's original state at random.
Newton's 5th law states that a husband will continue piling dirty dishes in & around the sink until the exhausted wife caves in & washes them.
Hahaha, we leave in nine hours. Every three hours you may start your new drink. I'm not getting up again, so get comfy
Imagine the number of peepee runs till then. And they won't need to go at the same time and frequency either...
Load More Replies...How long is their flight gonna be, are there enough barf bags, and I hope they're seated near the bathrooms?
Yup. We basically pack up our entire house and move it a new location for about a week then repeat and drag it all back home.
"How was your holiday?" "Instead of waking up and working for 12 hours at work, I woke up and worked 16 hours a day at home. Great times."
Damn!! Now we are gonna see requests in the Craigslist Fetish listings.
Dogs, too. Maybe not at humans (I wouldn't bet on it, though) but definitely on each other "Oy! Get yer ass out of my territory, you mangy piece of catnip, Buster!" "Yo, Freddy, go find a different tree to piss on, you s**t-smelling Swiffer-lookalike!"
Load More Replies...One of my cats is really foul-mouthed and I'm pretty sure he swears at me when I piss him off.
I once heard a hamster swear. Not a cute little gold-hamster but one of those foul-tempered big European ones. I was biking with my dog when I realized he wasn't behind me anymore. Turned and saw him jumping around in a field. Thought he had a bird or something and hurried over (he usually didn't hurt animals at all, but of course you never know!) and then I saw that the "fluttering bird that was trying to escape" was actually a common hamster that was jumping right into my dog's face whenever he approached. Dog backed off, hamster tried to scuttle away, dog went back to look at it, hamster jumped up and hissed right into dog's face. Rinse and repeat until I came and took the dog. And hamster scuttled off, all the while muttering obscenities about the rude dogs and their useless humans. (I'm assuming that's what it said. But it was DEFINITELY swearing something) I apologized, but hamster didn't want to hear any of it. I can't even be mad - had every right to.
Even pet hamsters swear - my Russian dwarfs make a squeeky toy/electric noise when they don't like something I do 😅.
Load More Replies...It never occurred to me, but it seems like a valid question. I'm gonna go with yes.
Yes. Yes they do. And often. Especially to, or about, humans. I well understand why, too.
When my best friend was pregnant with my nephew she swore up and down that she'd never be the mom eating the leftovers on the highchair tray because why waste the cheerios. Visiting for breakfast. Watched her cleaning the tray table and sure enough, in pops the cheerios. I looked at her. She looked at me and we both burst out laughing. So many never that actually ended up happening.
When my daughter was young, my childless friend once remarked that she has now realised that new moms gain so much weight from all the leftovers they eat. I didn't appreciate it much.
The leftovers are ALL she probably eats. Who has time for nice meal... eat scraps while doing the dishes and cleaning. IF mom's gain weight it is more likely because their priorities are not self centered. Should I go to the gym - or read a book to my little one?
Load More Replies...Are you having a really bad day? Why are you trying to ruin everyone else's bc you're angry at your little life? Therapy will help you process your emotional outbursts you should try it or do you get off on being sad?
Load More Replies...Let’s treat our spouses like adults and give them the respect they deserve
Load More Replies...guys, guys, he's just telling a story for BP......I'm sure they are all fine
My daughter pulls out theb" I don't like you very much right now!!! " card any yomenshes is in trouble. She said hate one time to her brother Andrew had a conversation why that word was a.baf thing to say in that context. BUT if my 4 year old wrote it I wouldn't have hurt feelings. Just part of being a mom. Sometimes they get mad at you for making them do the right thing. Like not letting them eat a whole container of cookies before dinner. But I really don't think that's what was going on here. Lol
Man, my texting was wayyyy off. I can't figure out how to edit my post. It's so much easier to proof read after you post it then edit. Lol
Load More Replies...Yep, you're not. You're not even much fun 12,000 miles away from my sitting-on-the-couch evening. Seriously - lighten TF up.
Load More Replies...Or stack the dishes near the empty dishwasher and all clothes ( even the fresh one) near the washing machine - and start moaning above the void of wearable clothes and clean dishes instantly
What kind of lazy teenagers do you have? My two sisters and I are all teenagers. We wash and fold our own laundry and the dishes are done regularly after lunch and dinner. We clean and organize our rooms periodically, me because I get panic attacks when things are too distracting, one of my sisters because she can't stand messiness, and the other one because she shares a room with the second one.
Load More Replies...Some things never change. I’m 60, and did that too when I was a teenager. Pretty sure both my parents did too at the same age. Hell, I’m willing to wager there were Neanderthal teenagers who hid their animal skins and leftover bones way in the back of the cave after their moms told them to clean their sleeping rocks.
When my son was a teenager and got told to clean his room, when done he stood at the top of the steps to say so, I would ask” to who’s cleaning standards, mine’s or yours, yes he went back to his room
Or shoved the dishes under the bed and all the dirty laundry into the closet.
I've literally only seen boys do this though. All my friends and I do our dishes and laundry responsibly. Our brothers leave their dishes wherever they want and have a tantrum whenever someone brings up laundry.
You forgot th mention their closets and there's always that space, between night tables and walls...
My 18 year old threatening to move out because we are expecting to much of him. Like cleaning his room, putting stuff in the dishwasher and not on top of it... And than me ruining his plan by asking him who is going to clean his apartment.
Omg! Same here. I burst the bubble even more with ‘the cost of living’ crap.
Load More Replies...This is extreme generalisation. Some of us can be neat too, you know? 😂
I liked having a clean room. Not all teens are nasty monsters. Kids are usually dirty cause the parents clean up after them so they never learn. I was doing my own laundry in the 4th grade. My mom showed me how & was like now you wash your own clothes
Yep. Kids or animals, there is no such thing as privacy. If you try to close the door, they will just get together and break it down to get inside.
Load More Replies...I think kids and pets are like "Isn't this not how we supposed to go to the restroom? You watch me when I go and I watch you?"
OMG yesssss!!!! My son (4) is the worst but my daughter (9) is just as bad. It's like that's the time they want something and it can't wait or even if their dad is home, they still bust in on me. My locks are crap so I usually have 2 kids and 5 cats constantly busting in on me. My kids are also the worst when they think I'm in the bathroom they automatically need to use it " real bad" It's like a reminder that they need to go asap or they will have an accident. I've started just randomly walking in on them, and they hate it. I told them I would stop when they stop.
the moment you have fur babies or human ones privacy is gone forever lol
I also thought Musk making fun of Bezos' ridiculously phallic rocket was rich, coming from a guy who named his company, "SpaceX."
3. Take toys out of their places and leave them on the floor without playing with them. Also applies to things other than toys.
4. Play with poop. Preferably smear it on a light colored non-washable wall while the parents have their backs turned for .3 seconds
Load More Replies...3 be unreasonably sticky 4 whine over nothing 5 refuse to do anything 6 never clean up
Reminds me of all the "Calvin and Hobbes" comics where Calvin's dad would explain in humorously incorrect ways how things worked to his son, often followed by Calvin's mom wondering "Oh no, what did he teach you now?"
or a night of debating what other random crap they can trick their kid into believing.
Load More Replies...I must be the coolest mom ever, then... my 12 year old borrows my shoes all the time. Little monster has a pair of boats for feet!
Why do you care what someone else's shoes look like? Like, literally, what business is it of yours and why does ot even register?
Load More Replies...Aah, we could create a list. Nail clippers is another one that I've had hide.
"Can I have a bite?" Another one that loses it's cuteness factor after about age 4-5...😑
At least she's punching a tree and not a person? That's a small victory right?
Load More Replies...In fact nature made babies look like the way they do for adults to find them cute and take care of them - it's called "baby schema". So of course they are cute, no matter what you wrote here, poor lonesome, miserable person....
Load More Replies...You're not. Also my 3 year old kid eats what we eat. Or she does not eat, her choice. But I won't make two dinners, I don't have time for that.
Load More Replies...My son was in a Special Ed class with about 9 other kids. Every time I came to visit or drop off supplies, I'd walk in the room and my son would yell, "Mom!" After a few visits, all the kids would say "Mom!" when I came in the room. One of the T.A.'s tried to correct a student saying "No, that's Mrs. Emory" I said "Eh..let them call me mom. Makes me feel like I have more kids." I once met the mom of one of the other students and introduced myself. The T.A. said I was the one who brought in treats for the kids. The lady smiled and responded with "Oh..you're Emma's other mom." *Que Proud Moment.
When you have 4 kids and tell them that you like "Three" of them... then walk away.
“Mum, have you seen random item I bought 3 years ago and never showed it to you?” (Adult daughter. frequently. So yeah, it never stops
I can second this. 18 years of 'just pick things up when looking for something' and still I am fetched to find things because 'they just magically appear when you look for them'.
Load More Replies....... not just your children. I called my sons mom from 3 states away and years after we split up to jokingly ask her where they item I was missing was. Without a pause, she asked "Did you look on the dresser by the desk?" ... omg... Mom powers!!
A few years ago something circled the internet. A parent took their small child out for breakfast and when the waitress came the child told her "I want to devour the unborn". Eggs, the kid wants eggs
On a less morbid note, my childhood friend's younger sister once carried around an egg for a while thinking it was going to hatch. It was a chicken egg... from a carton. I want to know how it ended; I just saw her yesterday and I should've asked.
... kind of makes me think ... I was asked by the 7 yo daughter of a friend's friend, after she overheard a conversation about a lot of issues, what kind of people would even eat animals at all ... with 7, I thought she knew this is pretty common and already should know she does that, too, so I said "you, right now, are eating an animal." (she had some kind of chicken-nugget in her hand), which caused ... uh, let's call it problems. A meltdown including "Never Again!" and "But I love them ... delicious ... " and a few rounds of back and forth within her opinion on it, and in the end, I was "that vegan" and it was my fault (then, I wasn't even one, but a vegetarian), but I didn't really want to take the blame, as I didn't fail in telling a kid where things come from. Her mother - friend of a friend, not an actual friend of mine - had made up some story of nuggets being dug out the ground, like carrots.
this is important! I'm 20 y/o and still can't blow my nose. Like I know how to do it and I try it every damn time but it just doesn't work
Put a tissue over your nose. Press your other nostril close with your fingers through the tissue. Close your mouth and blow gently but hard through your non-blocked nostril until there's no more sruff coming out. Repeat with the other nostril. Throw the tissue in the trash and sanitize your hands. :)
Load More Replies...While he was getting ready for work one of our surgeons let his little daughter put small stickers all over his face. Of course before entering the hospital he removed all of them. Or so he thought. He missed one and there he is visiting a patient he's about to perform surgery on and there's the little sticker he missed for everyone to see. And you can bet that none of the nurses told him it was there. Neither did his patients. He just wondered why they were looking at him so strangely.
Tried that with my friend on his dad when we were kids, didn’t work , Dad made sure all the markers in his house were non permanent.
Each time he does it, ignore him. Worked for me with my parents, when I went through the hysterical laughter phase.
Not at that level but I don’t want to see the new one. I have such fond memories of the circonstances in witch I saw this movie that I prefer to just reminisce and be happy about the experience.
Wait till your 50's. You won't care about grace.. or anything else 🤣
I still remember doing a presentation for school when I was about 12 and someone in the class replying "Huh?" after every sentence I said. Someone told him to knock it off after a while, though.
Also ask yourself if you enjoy using the toilet alone, I say this because my 24 year old daughter still thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to come and talk to me mid pee, THERE ARE NO BOUNDARIES no matter how old they get!
The alternative is to have privacy but not an adult child who considers you her next bestie. So I have a Bathroom Buddy.
Load More Replies...Clean water, with no back wash. That was a shock the first time I watched that happen with a bottle of water.
Not exactly on topic, but one of my funniest stories about kids was when I made a suspense/thriller short film and I used several kids from my sons class. One young lady was so excited that she was in it that the next school day she ran up to her teacher and announced that she was in an adult film. Luckily the teacher already knew about the project and laughed as she told me about it.
Oh God yes, words with two meanings! I got new clothes for my 8th birthday and wore them to school, proudly telling everyone I was in my birthday suit 😶
Load More Replies...Thank you list, for backing up my decision, to not have kids. (And downvotes just show me how inconsiderate some are of other opinions.)
My youngest, when he was 2, would scream and yell if he had a penny and lost/misplaced it. But did he want a new one? No, he wanted the exact one he lost. So we had to trick him, by going into another room, and say "i found it", just so hed stop screaming. Now him and my other son (8 and 12) fight over who gets to open the door whenever we have to leave.
1 year would say duck with an F instead of a D. Loudly, in stores every time she saw a duck.
I apparently said a lot of funny stuff when I was younger, and according to my mom's Facebook memories from 11 years ago, one of them was "It's okay guys, Bambi speaks martian". I was playing with toys and green Play-Doh, and I'm assuming Bambi refers to the deer.
Not exactly on topic, but one of my funniest stories about kids was when I made a suspense/thriller short film and I used several kids from my sons class. One young lady was so excited that she was in it that the next school day she ran up to her teacher and announced that she was in an adult film. Luckily the teacher already knew about the project and laughed as she told me about it.
Oh God yes, words with two meanings! I got new clothes for my 8th birthday and wore them to school, proudly telling everyone I was in my birthday suit 😶
Load More Replies...Thank you list, for backing up my decision, to not have kids. (And downvotes just show me how inconsiderate some are of other opinions.)
My youngest, when he was 2, would scream and yell if he had a penny and lost/misplaced it. But did he want a new one? No, he wanted the exact one he lost. So we had to trick him, by going into another room, and say "i found it", just so hed stop screaming. Now him and my other son (8 and 12) fight over who gets to open the door whenever we have to leave.
1 year would say duck with an F instead of a D. Loudly, in stores every time she saw a duck.
I apparently said a lot of funny stuff when I was younger, and according to my mom's Facebook memories from 11 years ago, one of them was "It's okay guys, Bambi speaks martian". I was playing with toys and green Play-Doh, and I'm assuming Bambi refers to the deer.
