One of the biggest blessings of being a parent is just how often your children make you burst out laughing with their shenanigans. Parents are tweeting the most hilarious stories and Bored Panda has curated this list of the very best ones for you to enjoy.
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Author, parent coach, and founder of ‘Calmer Parenting,’ Anne Peymirat, told Bored Panda that the biggest new challenges that parents are facing in 2020 are closely linked to the coronavirus pandemic. These include “working during the pandemic, looking after their kids, and having little or no childcare or support.” Scroll down for our full interview with Peymirat.
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I had an interesting conversation about this with a great high school teacher I had. He was talking about how much of an effect parents (and nurture in general) has on the pain perception of kids that will later determine how "tough" of an adult they will become. This was one example: your child falls. As an adult you generally can gauge quite well how bad that fall was and can control YOUR reaction. That silent moment is actually your child looking for THAT, how mommy or daddy acts now. If you run towards them with a face full of horror, they start to scream and cry. If you calmly pick them up with a smile and a casual "whoopsie" they will smile back. The first type will likely be more sensitive to pain as an adult, the latter more impervious.
Yup. I found that if you use a casual voice and say simply and neutrally, "ya a'ight?" they generally shrug it off and pick themselves up. The one time my son actually cracked his skull, neither of us panicked because we both knew the calm approach drill and it was way easier to assess his actual injury without all the emotional intensity.
Load More Replies...My mother always told me the worst thing you could do was immediately ask a kid if they were okay. She said you just set yourself up for the kid to cry, because if you were asking, there must be something wrong. She wasn't trying to be cruel, but wanted to make sure that we understood when we were truly hurt that she needed to know that. As she said, does this require a band aid or a trip to the ER?
I've seen this and it's spot on. 9 out of 10 times it's the primal scream.
If you used that moment of silence to flee the room, that "siren" will never occur. Kids only do it for attention and if you're suddenly not there, the scream will be cut and will gurgle out as a whimper.
Why is this treated like it's a new idea? Foster Cline has written and spoken about this very thing. It's quite obvious that a parents reaction feeds a child reaction. It's also why it's so important for parents to model good behavior vs. just talking about it. When a child sees a physical reaction to something they learn that social cue.
We always dropped into the referee pose and holler “SAFE!” Then laugh and clap!
I had a little girl jump in my arms, unaware of the pain I was in from a ruptured disk. I dropped Dow and held he up but she still bonked the sidewalk with her head. Mom and I went to ER. X-rays were fine, she was fine, but the Dr wanted to have her read the eye chart just to be safe. She got the giant E but then rattled off letters no where close to the next line or any other line. I was really getting worried and I walked over and asked her if she was ok because she didn't get any of them right. We argued back and forth for a minute and then she grabbed my hand and showed me how wrong I was. She was reciting the tiny little 10-12 point type that said Made in China ...... I told her mom and the Dr she was fine. Doc agreed and we drove home, admiring all the Christmas light displays. Kids heads are like eggs. They will break, but they also can withstand a hit that defies all logic. Both should be handled carefully as both can break without warning.
I received a bicycle for Xmas when I was 9. My mom and dad didn't have time to put it together before they left for work, so I did it. I rode around for about an hour, until the handle bars began to wobble and the front wheel turned and dumped me chin-first onto the curb. Busted my jaw real good. --- I stood up and walked my bike home with blood gushing down the front of my shirt. I put my bike in the garage and was walking out when my mom pulled up. She had a shocked blank look on her face. As soon as I saw her I burst into big heaving tears. I think I started crying, because my mom was there to hear me.
I don't want to be a downer....but there is....you kow...a third possibility.
According to Peymirat from ‘Calmer Parenting,’ the coronavirus has changed family life in a lot of ways. At the start of the pandemic, there were a lot of kids learning via the internet and this caused a lot of new issues for parents, from learning how the heck Zoom works to figuring out how to keep their kids entertained all day at home.
As coronavirus cases continue to rise, we might see a greater return to distance learning in some areas, and parents will have to juggle having their children at home all the time again. Some schools are already having classes online again, but not all parents are working from home again, so it’s a real pickle of a situation.
Peymirat explained that there are both positives and negatives that came with the pandemic. On the plus side, the pandemic led to more interactions between parents and their kids, especially when everyone was under lockdown.
On the flip side, the lockdowns had also increased the amount of time that kids spend in front of screens. That’s not all, however.
“Some parents reported anxiety in teens who did not want to go out and see friends, not so from younger children who are often quite resilient,” the parent coach revealed. She said that the best way to calm down a child is to be factual about the Covid-19 pandemic and to give them advice about protecting themselves and others.
Peymirat also advised parents who are feeling overwhelmed with everything to take any opportunity that they can to have some alone time with just themselves or with their partner. This way, parents can recharge, relax, and be ready to overcome anything else that 2020 throws at them.
I'm glad I had already swallowed my coffee before reading this, otherwise I would be currently cleaning my screen....BAHAHAHAHAHA
Is he called Calvin, by chance? And sorry to tell you, but it is a real concern that too many adults are unaware of.
Don't laugh this away, she's probably a HSP and can really feel the little difference in texture...
Ah...nathan fillion, jewel staite, morena baccarin, gina torres, alan tydyk.
One Czech singer wrote a loong Facebook post a couple of months ago after he had to live alone for a few weeks because of covid. It was all about how amazing his partner is, how he hadn't realized until then that the laundry doesn't wash/dry/fold itself, that dishes have to be washed and that toilet doesn't stay clean on its own. He praised his girlfriend so much. Not one sentence mentioned that he's going to now participate more and so many people clapped to say how amazing he is.
Argh - my partner. We have three washing up liquid bottles on the go. WHY?
You look better than a Disney princess with and without a mask ;)
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I laughed so much on so many posts. Most of those kids are really fantastic, same as their parents comments
That's because kids have the weirdest thought processes and you cannot make that stuff up.
Load More Replies...s**t I identify so deeply with most of these that I hurt myself laughing. Literally strained a muscle in my neck
Many of these recounts are obviously heavilly edited and "added to" in order to gain attention by the poster. Real life is funny enough. Why can't we just keep it real? (Rhetorical question. Answered in the first sentence. LOL)
I laughed so much on so many posts. Most of those kids are really fantastic, same as their parents comments
That's because kids have the weirdest thought processes and you cannot make that stuff up.
Load More Replies...s**t I identify so deeply with most of these that I hurt myself laughing. Literally strained a muscle in my neck
Many of these recounts are obviously heavilly edited and "added to" in order to gain attention by the poster. Real life is funny enough. Why can't we just keep it real? (Rhetorical question. Answered in the first sentence. LOL)