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.
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...
Yeah - sometimes the pattern isn't printed but woven. She may well feel the polka dots.
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I honestly have a few dress socks that I won't wear for this exact reason, except they are striped.
Hey those sensitivities are serious. For me it was tags in the collar of shirts.
highly sensitive person The definition of a highly sensitive person is someone who experiences acute physical, mental, or emotional responses to stimuli. ... Highly sensitive people know from long experience that they feel things far more strongly than others do. They have seen firsthand how they're different.
The WORST as a child were the Sunday tights with little polka dots. I hated those with a passion and my mom thought I looked cute so she kept trying to get me to wear them. Ugh! I could feel hundreds of itchy little contact points all over my legs. This is how to ENSURE your child has a bad day.
There are some socks where you CAN feel the shapes! Not all are just dyed on there, and it can drive you nuts!
Sorry mom, but a lot of socks with patterns have a lot of extra thread in them so yeah, she did feel the dots. Especially if they're a little tight. You as parent can check that by turning them inside out see how much extra thread is in there so you won't buy socks for nothing. Don't dismiss her like that, she's got a point. Pun intended.
When my socks have a design on them, there is normally extra thread on the inside of my sock and I can lightly feel the outline of the design, so I know how she feels. It helps for me to wear my socks inside out. It sounds weird but it works
I can't wear socks with stitching (stripes, embroidered(?), etc) because I feel the bumpiness of the threads and eventually the bottoms of my feet start to pain. Even if the stitching is minimal, I'm quickly uncomfortable. Same with shirts or sweaters with bulky fibers - my shoulders start hurting.
I always had to turn my socks inside out when I was little because I could feel the pattern
I feel them too and they are annoying, all I want is plain warm surface to standup on.
She’s probably not lying. I’ve had clothing I couldn’t wear for that sort of reason.
But you CAN feel the polka dots !!!!!! The circles are loomed or whatever with a different kind of fabric-yarn-stuff, and if you turn the sock inside out you can SEE that the polka dots stand out !! It's irritating and annoying !!
I have a dress with polka dots on it and I realised yesterday when I wore it out for one of the first warm days of spring and I realised... THE POLKA DOTS ARE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TEXTURE THAN THE REST OF THE DRESS! You literally CAN feel the polka dots!
Feel the dots with a surprised look on your face, "Wow, I can feel the dots! That is amazing." Then walk off with them and let your 10-y/o find her own socks.
I can always feel the differences if there are spots or stripes because of the change in tension between the threads and the pressure is stronger over the double thickness. I need them to be printed instead. Nobody knew about sensory processing issues when I was a kid, so I was just a picky, whiny brat.
Try turning them inside out. Our 2nd daughter was really sensitive to texture and she could tolerate her socks this way.
It's not unreasonable. My feet are also sensitive and I can't wear woven socks that use thick material. They hurt when you step on them. I am sorry for you though because that means her hyper-sensitivity makes purchasing clothes problematic. Shoes too if you can feel the waffle through the insole.
Hey, my daughter wouldn't eat bananas because of the seeds! Ever hear of anyone choking on a banana seed?
Sounds like sensory processing disorder . It could be nothing but I'd have it checked out. If she has spd then there are therapies that can help her overcome them. The earlier the better
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.
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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)
