Parenting is a never-ending adventure. One day moms and dads might be fighting monsters under the bed, the other, hopping from furniture to furniture, avoiding the lava that has unexpectedly flooded the floor. Sometimes they get to play the role of a sage trying to answer the centuries-old question, will my toddler ever eat his veggies?
These are just a few of the many quests parents take upon in their day-to-day lives with kids. Luckily, some of them document and share fragments from it, which often results in some quite amusing accounts. We have combed through X (formerly Twitter) in search of the best of them and put them on this list for you today. So wait no longer, scroll down to find them, and enjoy the November edition of parenting posts of the month.
In order to delve deeper into the subtleties of parenting, Bored Panda got in touch with a Professor of Psychology at the University of Mary Washington, Miriam Liss, who was kind enough to answer a couple of our questions. You will find her thoughts in the text below.
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Email back sorry as I'm only a caregiver I can not provide the equipment you ask for please ask one of the male teachers to provide many thanks
Totally not worth the effort. You'll get screamed on and it will be pointed out to you in a very unpolite way that her perfect and soon to be successful daughter is absolutely none of your concern.
By the 3rd you just shurg and leave them picking stuff out of the bin lol s/
when you put it that way......... it makes rethink my whole entire life.
Not sure if this post was misinterpreted, but my take was that, the little girl thought that everytime someone said they had a tummy ache, that they were actually saying they had a tummy egg.
My daughter always behaved beautifully when out of the house, in the home: not so much. I was ok with it.
For me it was "Your brother put [object name] in your room for you". 50/50 chance I'd find him jumping on my bed
Maybe she's just being nice to the boys?? Idk being polite is good
I seriously need to find better grandparents for my kid. His is nothing like this.
It's ok!!!! Oh and you REALLY don't want to know where the nugget was from....
Same - it's been 10 long years now, and it's worse every time I look......
there is a difference between BEST BEFORE-----BEST SOLD BY----- and EXPIRES ON
fr tho lîke as a teenage girl, i love taylor swift a lot but all my friends are just...
I get angry if someone sits in "my" seat when get on the bus...
I hate this more than anything. Happens all the time. I want to scream back, "Well, looks like you can figure out what f*****g time it is yourself next time!" We add that to the litany of things, "dad wants to say but doesn't"
At the risk of sounding like a parent-shamer: Don't ever set the "don't tell ____" precedent. "No secrets" should be policy! We don't even use the word "secret" in our household. Predators rely on these type of precedents existing to continue their abuse. Instead, replace "secret" with "surprise" when possible (even in stories). Also, when they're older, discuss how "we don't have secrets in our house to keep [you] safe." Source: my journalist SIL did an investigative piece and learned this from some of the experts.
So my school goes from preschool to eigth grade so the the grade I'm in (which is in middle school) has to be paired up with a kindergartener for a "buddies" program. Since there's too many kids in my grade we are also partnered up with one of our peers to share a buddy. My girl (who's an actually a sweetheart) is really into princesses and c**p. So when we were on the playground she was like "Let's play princesses. I'm the princess" So when I asked where her castle is she looked me dead in the eye and said "You're my castle" I can't rn with 5 y/os.
as a teenager, my stepmom bought me only algebra books for christmas and my dad just bought me tiny green plastic army men because thats what every 14 yo girl wants obviously
When I was a teenager, my mum said she used to use a coat hanger to zip her jeans!
That's because they are. Physics experiments show you are taller lying down than standing up. Gravity works.
It's more interests vs chores and short vs long term memory. It's normal for everyone :)
People, all these are meant to be funny. Please take them in that vein. Again, these are not meant to be serious. Develop a sense of humor and laugh, OK?
A tad nicer than 'I have not had enough coffee for you to talk this much'
Could be an indicator of tritanomaly. Tritanomaly makes it hard to tell the difference between blue and green and between yellow and red. Could be a kid being a kid.
Mine didn't want to listen to the 'Yelling with a beat" either. However, she found a Duran Duran CD and thought they were pretty good. Ugh
For some reason my son now has a thing for food hygiene rating stickers. He points them out whenever he sees them. The school canteen has a rating of 4 out of 5 so he needed some convincing that the food he has been eating for the last 4 years is perfectly safe. This morning he surpassed himself. We get to school as normal and for reasons he says in a fairly loud voice "In the beginning, I came out of mummy's vagina." Thankfully there was not that many people there at the time.
God forbid "people" hear your kid say the V-word? Or why would this be an embarrassing moment?
Load More Replies...Some people with children also ask themselves that question...
Load More Replies...Some of these made me cringe because the parents thought that what they wrote was cute or funny, when I read it differently. Could be the parent was trying to be funny, but . . .
For some reason my son now has a thing for food hygiene rating stickers. He points them out whenever he sees them. The school canteen has a rating of 4 out of 5 so he needed some convincing that the food he has been eating for the last 4 years is perfectly safe. This morning he surpassed himself. We get to school as normal and for reasons he says in a fairly loud voice "In the beginning, I came out of mummy's vagina." Thankfully there was not that many people there at the time.
God forbid "people" hear your kid say the V-word? Or why would this be an embarrassing moment?
Load More Replies...Some people with children also ask themselves that question...
Load More Replies...Some of these made me cringe because the parents thought that what they wrote was cute or funny, when I read it differently. Could be the parent was trying to be funny, but . . .
