Schools are closed, you're working from home, and you can't have your kid stay over at their grandparents' place. This situation means that parents are spending more time than ever before with their adorable munchkins. Now, they're getting into all kinds of trouble and driving their parents bananas!
Bored Panda has collected a bunch of funny photos showing the struggles and joys of parenting during the quarantine. Life can be very fun(ny) when you're with your kids all day, every day. However, that means that coming up with activities to keep your children busy is more important than before.
Scroll down, upvote your favorite of these funny kids, and share your own stories about the coronavirus lockdown in the comments below, dear Pandas. When you're done enjoying this list, be sure to check out our post with some great parenting hacks on homeschooling your children during the quarantine right here.
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I Know The C-Virus Is Scary, But Try Working With A 4 Year-Old Dressed Like Spiderman Perched On The Kitchen Table Behind You. Day 6
Y’all I’m Dying! This Is Ben’s Journal Entry From Monday About Our First “Home School” Day. That Last Sentence
You're trying to finish your report right before the deadline, but your kid is running around pretending to be a superhero. Or you want to sit down and watch some TV, but that's the moment you realize that your toddler broke it. Ah, the wonders of raising kids! It's a challenge, but there are things you can do so you can focus on your work.
For instance, Allyssa McCabe, a psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts, told The Atlantic that it's easier to keep kids busy during the workday without supervision the older they are. But for those readers out there who have young kids, don't panic just yet!
“For young children, independent play is tough. They really need social interaction. Parents will be tempted to hand over an iPhone or iPad or the like. This is understandable, but parents should also know that the younger the child, the worse this is for their language and cognitive development.”
Day 12
Instead of making your kid sit surrounded with electronic devices all day long, it's best to go for something that will actually help with their development. Give them art supplies or Play-Doh to get them creating!
Meanwhile, Michelle Martin, a professor at the University of Washington's Informations School and the founder of a children's summer literacy program, recommended that parents play their kids some audiobooks.
You'll be able to focus on work and your child will be engaged and learning. And the best part? While your kid's listening to Harry Potter, you can sneakily listen in, too, when you're taking a break. Now that's a win-win situation if we've ever seen one!
"Daaaad, We're Bored!" (Day 1 Of Lockdown) "Ummm Ok, Strip This Laptop Down, And This Desktop, And Then Rebuild Them"
My god it's the most peace and quiet I've had all week!
My Son Discovered That I'm Not Really At Work, But Am Working From Home
My Kiddo Cut His Hair Yesterday, Then Agreed To Let Me Have A Little Fun With It Before We Fixed It
The Children Are Home From School For Two Weeks. Send Help
Schools And Sports Are Cancelled. Social Distancing. I Have Three Kids. Our Cozy Fort
Using My Tears To Clean The Crusted Green Paint Speckled All Over Our House
Tired Of Your Kids Barging In While You Try To Get Some Work Done At Home? Underwear On The Doorknob Works Wonders
Especially if they've been worn already and come complete with skid mark.
I Run A DnD Campaign For My 5-Year-Old And 3-Year-Old. Here Is Our Health And Initiative Tracker
We Went From “Home-Schooling” To A Roller Skating Party Real Quick
I'm Regretting Panic Buying $100 Worth Of LEGO's To End Up With My Children Ignoring Them And Instead Playing With A Cardboard Box And A Can Lid For The Last 2 Hours
Work From Home
The best thing is the dad (I assume) is fine with the kid texting his boss random letters, numbers, and emojis, so it ends up like:
While The World Is Fighting Over Toilet Paper, My Toddler Is Giving Ours A Bath
Day 7 Of Quarantine. Wearing Minnie Mouse Ears Whilst Bench Pressing Kids
Note: this post originally had 43 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
I'm currently living with toddler #2, and I learned a valuable lesson with toddler #1. If you want to keep your toilet paper safe, DON'T put it on the holder. Put it on a shelf where they can't reach it. Also, if the bathtub has water in it, I am IN the bathroom WITH my children. No one is drowning on my watch. Not the children or the toilet paper.
Excellent reminder!!! Parents need to be careful all the time. A child can drown in only 2 inches of water! Never leave a child unattended!
what my mom used to do if she needed to go out to get something and needed to leave for even 5 seconds is she'd get like a bumper thing that helps kids learn to walk and she'd place me in it and it had rubber sides. Basically my dad modified it so that it would balance me in the tub to where I couldn't move in it at all.
Keep the bathroom door closed. If they can open it. Get a toilet lock and tell them not to mess with the TP.
If they can open bathroom they should be in age when they have enough sense so you can reason with them.
Okay, I am not understanding why people have paint left out and how children are all tossing toilet paper into water. I have never seen children just throw toilet paper into bathtubs. Is this all just staged? What is with all of the god damn paint? Why?
How are they FINDING the paint and more importantly: how are they getting it OPEN. Even I struggle with those and I know which tools to use and how...
Don't know about putting toilet paper in the bath but when my son was about 3 he went through a phase of putting loads of toilet paper in the toilet! I had to go and buy one of those things to unblock my toilet, it happened more than once! The full roll of toilet paper down the toilet is definitely a real thing, trust me! And that was at a time when toilet paper wasn't endangered lol
It has to be. Because why are you leaving a child young enough to throw toilet paper in the tub alone in a bathroom with a tub full of water? And paint cans are very difficult to open. I'm guessing they're staged for CLICKS and LIKES. Such vacuous attention seekers.
I was thinking the same thing!! My kids would have to get ladders and assistance to get to the house paint. Kiddie paint now thats a different story.
I'm sure a lot of it is staged. But it's amusing!
What I see is a lot of bored kids and a lot of parents that should have been hoarding games and movies as opposed to TP.....
While I mostly agree with this, kids will inevitably pay attention to the same things the parents are focused on. If parents are obsessed over toilet paper the kids will gravitate towards it.
Good point
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Does that mean my kids are going to focus on beastiality porn?
try entertaining a 3-year-old for 8 hours while you have to actually work. good luck.
AnnSmithJones of course, you work full-time job while 6 kids magically play quietly for 8 hours straight. and other fantastic stories.
Done it many times. With 6 kids all under the age of 12. Successful full time job at home. The trick is to not make them think they are the center of the universe all the rest of the time when you're not working & to teach them how to respect other people's feelings. A 3 year old is old enough to understand that mommy or daddy is/are working so child needs to play quietly with (activity), then set a timer to go off for when you can take a break to pay them some attention. When it goes off, spend 15-20 minutes paying complete attention to them - run around the block, jump on the trampoline, start building a fort, playing a video game, mix up some brownies to bake, etc. When the timer goes off again, they understand it's work time again. It just takes effort to raise kids - more than dropping them off somewhere else all day & writing a check.
I'm currently living with toddler #2, and I learned a valuable lesson with toddler #1. If you want to keep your toilet paper safe, DON'T put it on the holder. Put it on a shelf where they can't reach it. Also, if the bathtub has water in it, I am IN the bathroom WITH my children. No one is drowning on my watch. Not the children or the toilet paper.
Excellent reminder!!! Parents need to be careful all the time. A child can drown in only 2 inches of water! Never leave a child unattended!
what my mom used to do if she needed to go out to get something and needed to leave for even 5 seconds is she'd get like a bumper thing that helps kids learn to walk and she'd place me in it and it had rubber sides. Basically my dad modified it so that it would balance me in the tub to where I couldn't move in it at all.
Keep the bathroom door closed. If they can open it. Get a toilet lock and tell them not to mess with the TP.
If they can open bathroom they should be in age when they have enough sense so you can reason with them.
Okay, I am not understanding why people have paint left out and how children are all tossing toilet paper into water. I have never seen children just throw toilet paper into bathtubs. Is this all just staged? What is with all of the god damn paint? Why?
How are they FINDING the paint and more importantly: how are they getting it OPEN. Even I struggle with those and I know which tools to use and how...
Don't know about putting toilet paper in the bath but when my son was about 3 he went through a phase of putting loads of toilet paper in the toilet! I had to go and buy one of those things to unblock my toilet, it happened more than once! The full roll of toilet paper down the toilet is definitely a real thing, trust me! And that was at a time when toilet paper wasn't endangered lol
It has to be. Because why are you leaving a child young enough to throw toilet paper in the tub alone in a bathroom with a tub full of water? And paint cans are very difficult to open. I'm guessing they're staged for CLICKS and LIKES. Such vacuous attention seekers.
I was thinking the same thing!! My kids would have to get ladders and assistance to get to the house paint. Kiddie paint now thats a different story.
I'm sure a lot of it is staged. But it's amusing!
What I see is a lot of bored kids and a lot of parents that should have been hoarding games and movies as opposed to TP.....
While I mostly agree with this, kids will inevitably pay attention to the same things the parents are focused on. If parents are obsessed over toilet paper the kids will gravitate towards it.
Good point
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Does that mean my kids are going to focus on beastiality porn?
try entertaining a 3-year-old for 8 hours while you have to actually work. good luck.
AnnSmithJones of course, you work full-time job while 6 kids magically play quietly for 8 hours straight. and other fantastic stories.
Done it many times. With 6 kids all under the age of 12. Successful full time job at home. The trick is to not make them think they are the center of the universe all the rest of the time when you're not working & to teach them how to respect other people's feelings. A 3 year old is old enough to understand that mommy or daddy is/are working so child needs to play quietly with (activity), then set a timer to go off for when you can take a break to pay them some attention. When it goes off, spend 15-20 minutes paying complete attention to them - run around the block, jump on the trampoline, start building a fort, playing a video game, mix up some brownies to bake, etc. When the timer goes off again, they understand it's work time again. It just takes effort to raise kids - more than dropping them off somewhere else all day & writing a check.