30 Of The Funniest And Most Relatable Parenting Tweets Of The Month, October Edition
Candy, costumes, and pumpkins might be the theme with kids every October, but regular parenting doesn’t take any time off. The start of the school year is still visible in the rear-view window while we’re sugar-rushing towards Halloween. So being a parent this month has been extra challenging.
So much so that Bored Panda couldn’t help but compile the best and funniest parenting tweets this month to share with you. They’re ridiculously relatable, and life becomes so much better when you realize—hey, you’re not in this alone. Check out the tweets below and don’t forget to upvote the ones that you found to be the most hilarious. Got any quirky parenting experiences that you’d like to share with everyone else? Scroll down to the comments and tell us all about it.
We hope that you’ve got plenty of room for dessert, too! We know how much you love our monthly parenting tweet posts, so it’d be a sin not to remind you that you’ll find some more awesome content in our earlier articles here: September, August, and July.
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Hate to say it but no, it absolutely does not. My kiddo’s 26. The worries just become different ones.
Yep I can attest to that I've got a 28 year old my whole head is gray...
Load More Replies...I haven't entered the teenaged years, which I expect are the most challenging, but as much as I loved the toddler years, from an objective point of view, they were WAY more physically demanding than the following years. No more multiple bottles in a night... no more diapers all hours of the clock... no more panicking over novel symptoms...
Easier in some ways but much more difficult in other ways. (Like dealing with two middle school age girls, dear Lord)
LOL... sure, maybe no more diapers, but you have to clean up all their other s**t :D
I thought it’s just me. Yes, I feel more tired now than when they were babies and toddlers.😢
Adult issues are so much broader and touch so many more lives than "kid stuff," for lack of a better term. Sneaking out in high school ain't got nuthin' on grown folks issues.
But here’s the thing. Are you waking up soaked in breast milk, struggling to sit up from your c-section pain with a newborn that won’t stop screaming. Having to change two diapers before you can even put your contacts in or have a cup if coffee? I know older children are hard but its not dragging mom’s physical body down hard in the same way
Load More Replies...I said the same to the friendly elderly shop attendant who found me a quiet corner in the furniture store, so I could discreetly breastfeed my screaming baby. She said, no, its not gonna get any easier, just different. That was 24 years ago. I remember her often 😉
I actually hate when people say it doesn’t get easier because the newborn phase/first year can be so so so beyond exhausting and emotionally trying for a new mom. I mean, teetering on the edge of death awful. So to take away any hope that it can get better is just cruel. I know it will get hard again when they are teenagers but right now it’s just perfect. Like, the sweet spot of parenting. Hang in there new mommas.
Cried a little I'm hoping I don't p#@s myself when I hear it from my kids
My youngest are 13 and 15. Both boys. I have never actually had a fight with them. We get a lil aggravated at each other for sure. But we always talk out our problems. We stay on good terms. I never yell and neither do they. Not once.
Have you accidentally cut yourself on a sock though?
Load More Replies...Honestly i do hate when people tell new parents this (especially overwhelmed breastfeeding moms who haven't slept more than a couple hrs in months and often take a majority of childcare when they are babies). It gets a lot easier (before they enter the teenage years) imo so it's simply not true that things are constantly hard. When they are young they leave you no sense of yourself at all and you can't even communicate with them. Of course every age has its struggles but I would never say it's equally demanding to care for a newborn who wakes up every 20 minutes to nurse or a 2yr old in the middle of a constant tantrum-phase as it is to take care of a 9yr old for example. It gets a lot easier in between.
Bored Panda got in touch with parenting blogger Samantha Scroggin, the creator of Walking Outside in Slippers, for a chat about being a parent. We were interested to get her opinion on whether someone can tell that they’re ‘ready’ to be a parent, as well as if it’s ever truly possible to be fully prepared for having kids.
“I can only speak from my personal experience on when the time to have kids is right. For me, I’ve always wanted to be a parent, and I made sure that any partner I ended up with (my husband) also wanted to have kids,” the mom and blogger revealed to us.
Better than xylophone. You can also leave the book at their house, “so that they will always have it at hand to play with your child”
“Not wanting to have kids would be a deal-breaker for me. I’ve seen marriages fall apart when the spouses disagreed on whether to have kids,” Samantha said.
“But I waited until a year or so into our marriage when my husband and I both felt ready to try for our first baby. I was fortunate that the trying process only took a few months.”
However much you think you can do and learn before the baby comes, you’ll never be fully prepared. That’s just the nature of parenting. A lot of what you have to do, you’ll just have to pick up through experience while ‘on the job.’ Probably any parent will agree, there is a vast difference between theory and practice.
“I don’t think anyone is ever fully prepared and comes pre-equipped to have children. It definitely is a learning-as-you-go process,” Samantha, from the Walking Outside in Slippers blog, told us.
“A lot of parenting, for me at least, has been trial and error. But I would suggest anyone considering parenthood make sure they are in a sound financial and emotional place before embarking on the journey if possible. Because the journey will be trying!”
Ah, but that's the beauty of instant ramen. You can eat it even if you're tired of it. You can eat it when you're so sick of it that you think you'll be sick if you have to choke down another bowlful. You can eat it when you're so fed up with ramen that you don't even bother cooking it anymore and just crunch up the freeze-dried noodles with seasoning sprinkled on top like really weird snack chips. When there's nothing else to eat, you can always eat instant ramen.
Knowing that there will be tough times ahead is part of what helps you get through them. Anticipating hardship allows you to mentally prepare yourself for mistakes, exhaustion, and (whether we want to admit it or not) plenty of tears.
And though practically every parent will have to make some sort of sacrifices after the birth of their first kid (leisure, friends, privacy, sleep), many feel like that’s well worth it, in the end.
Technically, it could be another way of saying “I don’t want to see you anymore”. Just sayin’
Even worse is when you have to hold the booger to stop them rubbing it on passing people 🤢
Single mom Ariane Sherine, who has an 11-year-old daughter, told Bored Panda during a previous interview that becoming a parent was the best thing that she’s done with her life. At the same time, she noted that parenting is very hard work.
“Being a mum has improved my life immeasurably and taught me to put another person first and think of their needs before my own," the mom told us.
Is it because you suddenly HAD TO water your avocado plant and one hour later, when you come back, it would be too late?
“She was a difficult toddler who would have giant meltdowns in the supermarket. She was also very active and wanted to walk everywhere (and swing on bars and somersault on railings!) which for a sedentary parent was exhausting,” she shared what her daughter was like growing up.
“She was incredibly curious, and walking anywhere would take forever as she had to examine every leaf and flower by the roadside and collect all the pebbles and sticks (and if I didn't let her, she would scream and scream!). But that phase came and went and now I have a wonderful eleven-year-old who is my whole world."
Ariane noted that people who are on the fence about having children ought to honestly ask themselves if they want them.
"I truly believe that's essential to being a good parent. If you don't love the thought of being a mum or dad, you're likely to resent having to put your children first. Secondly, that love for them is what powers you through the difficult times—and there will be difficult times. So do it because you know your life wouldn't be complete if you don't,” she said.
Depends if you have a morning bird or night owl as a child, I am a night owl and will stay up really late but sleep till 10, my brother will go to bed at 9 every night and wake up at 6
She highlighted the fact that nobody should have kids just to “tick a box” due to societal pressure. "Plenty of people are very happy and fulfilled without being parents. It just so happens that I wouldn't have been one of them, but that doesn't mean it's not a perfectly valid life choice,” Ariane told Bored Panda.
Being a parent means constantly adapting to a growing and changing child. What might have been a very difficult phase for a couple of years can suddenly shift and you might find yourself with more freedom (though the reverse can happen, too).
"Your kid will probably grow out of whatever behavior they're displaying now. The first four years are the most difficult. But at age 4, they go to school, and then you get your life back a bit, for at least six hours a day. See if you can get some help each week, whether that's grandparents doing a bit of childcare or paying a childminder. Use the extra time to exercise self-care and pamper yourself, whether that means having a massage or just a soak in the bath—do things you wouldn't be able to do while looking after your child,” the mom suggested how we can all deal with exhaustion.
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Having an open chat with your partner when you’re feeling overwhelmed or exhausted can work wonders, too. You can also reach out to your family, friends, as well as a counselor if need be. You have to have some sort of outlet for your emotions because things will be tough.
"You might not feel as though you're doing a great job, but is your kid fed, clothed, warm, safe, happy, and loved? Then you're doing brilliantly—cut yourself some slack.”
I was in film school a while ago and made a short suspense film using several kids from my 9 year old sons class as extras. It was blast and one of my sons friends was so happy she ran up to the teacher and told her that she was in an adult film. Luckily the teacher already knew about the project.
Lost interest after the first five or so. I thought it was 'Relatable Memes' but it was 'mommy & daddy' memes.
I was in film school a while ago and made a short suspense film using several kids from my 9 year old sons class as extras. It was blast and one of my sons friends was so happy she ran up to the teacher and told her that she was in an adult film. Luckily the teacher already knew about the project.
Lost interest after the first five or so. I thought it was 'Relatable Memes' but it was 'mommy & daddy' memes.