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.
Upvote your favorite parenting tweets as you’re scrolling down, share your own funny stories in the comments, and check out Bored Panda’s previous parenting posts here: August, July, May, April, March, February, and January.
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.
This post may include affiliate links.
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.
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.
And it's strange how no one here seems to think of finding out the reason and doing something about it.
Load More Replies...My daughter just wants to be alone in the morning, so I just stay in bed until she leaves for school. Otherwise, I would be too loud, in the way, talking too much, ... Apparently her morning mood has improved a lot (according to my other daughter who at some days has to get out the house at the same time thus has to be in the vicinity of the other). Good for me, an extra hour of semi-sleep (listening to the noises).
honestly, it's probably because you did something that offended her but you either never apologized or she never forgave you, and she's still upset. I suggest talking to her instead of brushing it off as just 'the dreaded teen years' and posting something on twitter. It's truly not hard.
But sometimes the offense can be as simple as saying your room needs to be cleaned.
Load More Replies..."Use your words." If they won't tell you what's wrong, then NOTHING'S WRONG. Proceed as usual.
And that's why I find important to remember how I felt in different periods of life. To be able to understand people of that age or in that situation. Also, if you don't speak with your children, you may find one day you don't understand each other - which is something that is quite bad right now for me in my relations with my mother... I am not sure how about mocking, maybe it will push them more to find friends outside, but I have rather unpleasant memories to this... And I at least hope they should be able to explain what's wrong - indeed, they have to learn that first, I agree (the question is how).
Honestly, I'm 34 and I still do this on weekdays a lot of the time. #OldHabits
No idea what the problem is? Didn't even ask? Not a very empathic or caring mother.
Oh god. My 16 year old is going through A PHASE (which has lasted roughly 7 years now) and this tweet is my entire parenting existence right now and probably until he moves out. I love him but atm I hope that happens the second he turns 18 >.<
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 ;)
My son has gotten very good at this. But only because his music class is not at 8:15am. If it was that early, I would toss both the recorder and the computer out of the window to make it stop.
In these days a good loud "dad-sneeze" is the way to chase noisy neighbors out of their gardens and into their houses with doors and windows shut.
Did the same when I was younger, never gonna go near that part of the conversation ever again.
I sweep all the toys in a corner. Yell “pick it up, or anything left on the floor in 10 Mins is rubbish and goes in the bin”.
My kitten does this to me now. I swear it wasn't like this with her predecessor 15 years ago.... or is this what we wipe from our memories so the cycle can continue?
It's the same with getting married. Married people want single people to be miserable.
2020 i in n pandemic - about 18 hours a day - there’s some sleep screen time overlap.
My daughter started this chain once and I anticipated this outcome, but she actually wanted a bowl of frozen blueberries and a spoon. It's something she eats all the time now.
Yeah I’d do that. I’m not a parent yet, but I’ve seen myself frustrated and tired
In my home there is enough order for it to look nice, and enough mess for everyone to feel normal.
I inherited my father's sneeze as well. I wonder if I was destined to be a dad.
It's the same for me, but in my case the kids finish their drinks and my wife leaves half finished cokes in the fridge 😂
No, the worst item on the menu is 'Parents with ill-behaved kids, Welcome.'
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)