It’s Time For The Funniest Parenting Tweets Of The Month, And Here Are The Best Ones This May (35 Pics)
It’s that time of the month again when moms and dads have yet another 31 days of parenting in the books. Welcome to Bored Panda’s list featuring parenting tweets: May edition! Because when it’s hard being a mom and dad, it’s also really fun, but time goes by and soon everything turns into memories.
Unless you share it on the internet. No wonder there’s a saying that what gets posted online stays there forever. And when it comes to parenting tweets, they surely can become a part of an excellent archive reliving our complex reality, including the absurdity, joy and challenge of it that comes with raising kids.
So let’s pull our seats closer and take a moment to see how May went for moms and dads on Twitter who didn’t miss a chance to share the hilarious conversations, accidents and experiences they had with the little ones.
After you’re done, there’s a lot more parenting tweets to chuckle at from previous months here, here and here.
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You should start to worry if she starts taking notes lol.
but which potato? mommy potato or daddy potato? that is the question
I didn't have to ask anyone the dr and nurses volunteered the info... ' oh wow, she looks just like you mom, like so much like you' and I tell you she really freaking did.. she couldn't tell our baby pics apart until she could tell the difference in clothing eras lol
When my partner and I were pregnant we made a small list with girl and boy names. And to chose one of the list the moment we saw her/him. That was not a good idea....
We all want what’s best for our kids. Sometimes, however, parents try so hard to be the best for their kids and make the little daredevils happy that they inevitably spoil them. A spoiled child can’t handle hearing “no” and instead responds by throwing tantrums or going into full meltdowns. As onlookers watch, wondering what’s up with the poor little kid, their parents face the obvious– it’s them who failed to set boundaries early, and things may be too late.
Some time ago, Bored Panda spoke with professional educator Lynn How, the author of “Positive Young Minds” who specializes in supporting parents, teachers, and children navigating through mental health issues and prevention. How shared a couple of insights into this topic about which many parents don’t feel comfortable talking.
Why does it matter to the school why the kid is late if the parents are showing up and signing them in? Whether little Jimmy's grandma died the night before, he just overslept the alarm, or the car died so they had to wait for a jump, that's an issue for the parents to deal with. They showed up, got out of their car, and signed the kid in to avoid the tardy. Get the kid to the classroom so they can get an education because an effort is being made to that end goal.
It also helps the school know if there are issues at home that might affect the child's academic or social-emotional development.
Load More Replies...I’m so confused like did this person name their kid 5 or am I stupid??
One time? No problem. But if you start doing this every Monday you are seriously damaging your child.
Damn, are you just going to take that? but yet again Shrek's pretty hot
So a doctor taking my history today asked what my daughter does for work. She’s 3. Okay, I got a late start — but do you have to rub it in like that ??
How explained that a lack of appropriate boundaries can be very confusing for a child. “Although on the outside, these children can seem argumentative and rude, this stems from a lack of self-confidence on the inside as they have not been given these tools,” she said. The educator explained that “once their safety blanket of the parents spoiling them has been removed, coping on their own would bring on anxiety which could manifest itself as a tantrum.”
In college, someone called the police on my friends and I who were playing "Ghosts in the Graveyard" (a tag-based game).
For a few months during the 80s I went to a small parochial school that didn't have its own outside area so they'd use 2 white van to take us to nearby parks for recess/gym. The nearest one was It was far enough away that walking with a bunch of kids would use up an entire lunch break or gym so the vans were used. They'd alternate vans so you'd get as much of the 60 minute gym class as possible. School went year round because they got tons of time off for major religious holidays (ie most of lent and advent). Mom worked for the associated church and tuition was cheaper than day care in the summer. The day before US Independence Day, our gym teachers took us to a nearby park that was having a field day to celebrate a new playground. One was nearly arrested for giving kids candy then putting them in the white van, shutting the door, and returning to the ball field for more kids. We were getting candy for how we did at our events then went to sit in the AC while the next group of kids finished their races. From an outsider he did look like a mass kidnapper. It was made worse because he'd left the park with another bunch of kids and returned empty a few minutes before because my class was the last one of the day and the other gym teacher had brought us. The writing with the school name was on the other side of the van as well.
Should've said something incriminating just to confuse everyone
Snuck up on 8 at a popular park; he screamed your not my dad and ran..... Well played, well played
Yes I've had things like this happen people be staring at me I be staring right back. Like what hell your problem it a mad child.
Reminds me of the time my daughter was 3. She found out that her nickname was casbah, named after my favourite perfume. She got so mad she went into my bedroom, took the bottle of perfume, screamed for me and when I appeared she threw it at the wall. Smashed. A full bottle of perfume. Could still smell it when we moved out 3 years later.
I've yet to meet a dog that was a fussy eater. I've seen them eat cat poop.
My dog picks the green and yellow pieces out of his kibble and drops them on the floor. You know, the “veggie” ones.
Load More Replies...Spoiled children form behavior that manifests in communicating not just with their parents or caregivers, but with friends, relatives, even strangers too. “Often these children will have friendship issues as they find it challenging to let others have their own way and they may find it difficult to form positive relationships with other adults such as teachers due to difficulty with conformity,” How explained and added that this adds up to a childhood that is more challenging than it needs to be.
This is ageism and I won't stand for it.. because I'm old and standing hurts.
Load More Replies...I was that kid in late summer of 1970 in Vancouver when my dad took me to see Canned Heat. "This place stinks, Dad!" Now, I kind of like that smell.
This is me and I'm an adult. I get too caught up in the details to ever count sheep. I've tried.
That's me. Are they different colours? Do they have clothes on? What are their teeth like?
Edit: I'm a clinically diagnosed insomniac. It's awful.
Load More Replies...Someone needs a nighttime ritual. This is me after too much TV and straight to bed.
My cat bought a frigging 15-book-series just by walking across the keyboard that way.
Load More Replies...Oh dude I didn't even catch that until I read your comment. I did the same. I was like, maybe it's a PS5 and some games and controllers?
Load More Replies...What’s interesting is that much of spoiled behavior, if not treated early, continues into adulthood. “Do you know anyone who has trouble keeping their emotions in check when they don’t get their own way? It may be that they were spoilt as a child and this hasn’t done them any favors as they move into their adult life,” How told us.
She explained that these children may turn into adults who show less resilience when things go wrong and they may give up easily when things aren’t working out. Also, they want it all and they want it now, whereas most adults can tolerate delayed gratification.
"Sleeping Beauty game" is the best parental hack ever! Whoever stays asleep the longest without moving wins!
My husband's friend told us about the time he convinced his kids to play "Cowboys & Indians". His kids "tied him to the tree" (his chair) with a jump rope and he proceeded to watch the playoff game...
Load More Replies...My stepdaughter tends to really get talking right during snuggle time in the evenings - like, any deep thought or question she's collected in the last 5 years comes to the surface. We've started playfully acting like we were falling asleep on top of her bed with our heads on her blanket, and she ALWAYS makes us go to our beds because "there's not enough room for us all", and it's HER bed, not ours.. Best hack we ever discovered, we're much better rested now!
You’re raising your kids to listen to the right music. Good job
Load More Replies...My son asked me for the "Kitten Song" - "Kitten's Got Claws", Whitesnake.
4yr old, "play the vauxhall song!" The Automatic: What's that coming over the hill. Will never unhear now.
Madam, may I say that you are bringing up a son with impeccable taste.
“Other traits that they may display include a lack of independence as their problems were generally solved for them, an inability to take criticism as nothing they did badly would invoke the appropriate feedback, and the idea that everything should just come to them easily without too much work. This last point is also coupled with a huge sense of disappointment when it doesn’t work out.” Being spoiled as a child doesn’t set a child up to have positive relationships or good mental health as an adult and that becomes a way greater problem than it was when the kid was little.
What? Why? What's wrong with a kid enjoying a parent's hug?
Load More Replies...My sister used to describe everything she didn't like as 'spicy'. The jig was up when she tried to use the term on pears and ice cream.
My son used to say something was "too tasty" if he didn't like it. It was the cutest thing because he would make a face and say it.
Load More Replies...Oh yeah. Everything is spicy. No kids but special needs brother, I love him so much but kid, I give you everything already so, sorry but this dish is spicy.
We did this with my 1 year old nephew who was just starting to toddle around and touch things. We put away anything we could and baby proofed as well as possible, and then just had to watch him carefully. He didn’t understand words like sharp, fragile, etc so we would say hot and redirect if needed. Yes my lovie, the printer is hot.
Parents are never going to answer the question "is that spicy" honestly.
I had a German Shepherd who would spread love, eat my cooking enthusiastically, listen, and obey commands before having a human toddler.
The dog had a human toddler? And stopped all of the above behavior?
Load More Replies...Well....sadly, we "higher" level animals have lost touch with the basic needs of our offspring.
I vividly remember being at restaurant with my husband when I was pregnant with my first kiddo, saw a family with two kids on iPad the whole time and said we definitely would never allow that with our kids. Hahahahhhjajahajah... joke was on me.
I grew up with tv, Im not denying my kids the joy of technological progress and moving pictures.
My 4yo regularly comes to tell me about random stuff. Like about black holes, venus fly traps, ants, digestion, etc. She got her curiosity and her ability to absorb information from screens from me ^^
A&B are setting their kids up for future failure. Not encourging your kids to interact with what the world communicates with is control drivin and isolating for the child. Sad.
Since many jobs that pay really well involve using a computer regularly, I've never understood limiting a child's access to a computer. Just set parental controls or monitor the places they visit...like a good HR/IT department will..
Is this where I post that my daughter, 8, fell in love with a coconut on holidays, and cried because she dropped it on it's head and all the 'brain juice' came out?
It came everywhere with us. Theme park, restaurants, needed a seatbelt in the car.
Load More Replies...I remember when I was really young I used to collect my dog’s hair and put it in a bag. Yup, I was definitely your average kid
It's French for thirty. Same logic as four-times-twenty-and-two!
Load More Replies...Ah s**t this is what I have to look forward to with my 4, 3, and 2 year old girls? I don't drink but someone bring wine.
just tell them IQ is genetic and leave them to do the computations of what that entails.
Load More Replies...holy f***k I hope I don't sound like this :| reason: ...I am a teenager who is trying really hard to not be an a-hole
You are the dad...an alien...to be a peaceful alien just step back, and watch for hostile forces, silently, ready to move aggressively on any source of danger. Then, yes, you move. First, peacefully....then, maybe more. You are the last resort. Whom else?
As an older brother, growing up with 2 sisters; I totally get this. Now we worry about who's gonna die first! WooHoo!!
Understanding the need for loving yourself and self care at a young age. He's going places!
Yeah...our social worlds would be amaZing if they did not have to be real.
I used to tell my best friend whenever her kids were misbehaving at all that she should throw them in a dumpster. Have you tried that? (Clearly this is a joke.)
Some days, I regretted the falling out of fashion of proper dungeons.
That is not a thing - stop it at all cost! Imagine - my husband does that to me in bed and I go ape s**t.
Omg this was exactly me when I was younger. Still have most of them to this day
Me, too, and I'm 35. I would have so much more room in my closet if I got rid of them, but I can't bring myself to do it.
Load More Replies...I had that problem when I was picking the toy to sleep with one night as a child. So I took them all since picking one was unfair to the others. Then I added the lego, duplo and the marbles as well since it felt mean to exclude them. For some reason I only did that one night, I have absolutely no idea why...
My daughter had a friend over once, who kept asking, 'Where are the up stairs? You know, the stairs to go up?' She didn't know anybody who lived in a one-storey house.
I moved to a rich town in high school and there was a girl who didn't understand what my previous, 2 family house was. She said, "like 2 families? They live in the same house, like together?"
Load More Replies...HAHA!! You wish! If anything, you will probably be even more late than before... and you won't even be able to blame traffic!
Yes you can blame all the Chelsea tractors blocking the roads.
Steve Martin once said, "Teach your kids to talk wrong. So on the first day of kindergarten, instead of saying, "Can I use the bathroom?" they say, "Can I mambo over to the banana patch?"
My autistic 4yo doesnt speak, much, yet, but she knows how to say "godammit" when shes frustrated, and Im not correcting her.
We all know it’s a joke but folks, please do no take excessive amounts of ibuprofen. It can cause kidney failure. So can a lot of other OTC drugs, but that one is a particular problem.
Ibuprofen is actually less problematic than paracetamol which can cause liver failure even at fairly low over doses. Especially if there's alcohol involved
Load More Replies...The goodie bag the hospital sent me home with when I had my kids (youngest is 39) contained Excedrin. I figured out why pretty quickly.
YOU FOUND ANOTHER LOOPHOLE!!!!!!!!! we can say fuckity and clusterfuck, OMG, it's not even my birthday!!!!!!!!!!
Load More Replies...Knew a young girl with lesbian parents. She learned the word penis and ran around the house saying "penis, penis, penis........" Funnies thing I've heard
You are actually not supposed 4o get mad. You are ment to show understanding since their brain are still evolving and learning, and then you explain and show the better way. And YES, even if it takes a 100 times.
Gee Wizz!! Lighten up will ya. This is all light hearted and sometimes it is actually very funny what they get up to, but they actually shouldn't. Parenting is stressful but also sometimes funny and stupid and dangerous. We are not all army officers with no sense of fun or humour.
Load More Replies...Hahaha I can't believe people have down voted you! Just wait until I tell them I think tuna = cat food 🤣
Load More Replies...I mean whichever can use Thunderbolt or Dynamic Punch better, I don't mind Penne-chu or Ravio-lu...
How else is she supposed to see the stuff that the school sends home for her that he never hands over?!?
Load More Replies...She sees you when you're sleeping, she knows when you're awake...
Liam neeson does too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqG621-drmk
Load More Replies...😆 I don't know what it is, but as a little kid I would get so filled with wonder and excitement when I saw one of my teachers in the wild. Lol it was like I thought teachers were "robots" that lived at the school and powered down when us kids left for the day. One day I saw my 1st grade teacher shopping at the Chinook centre, mind blown 🤯
My son had found his grandmothers razor near the tub and shaved off part of his right eyebrow. A few days later, my husband is giving me a haircut and drags the electric clippers across a comb to trim my bangs. I was like "Did you just shave my eyebrow?" He says "No" takes comb away "Oops..." Same half..same eyebrow. So for a while, whenever my son and I were together, it looked like an inherited genetic abnormality than an accident.
At that age, mine asked if whales sneeze? Conversations with 2 cetologists, a marine biologist, Google searches, and almost 20 years later "?"
He should meet his celebrity soul mate Jessica Simpson, who asked, "Why is chicken of the sea tuna?"
Maybe they were originally called flutterflies because of how they flutter when the fly and someone misheard and thought they said butterflies...but they relayed it with such confidence that other people unfamiliar with the creature bought into their BS and believed them. It's the same premise on why people think vaccines cause autism and universal healthcare is communist socialism.....
I'm guessing the part that's on the bottom says something to the effect of "I give you the D"
Load More Replies...Oh no now Billie Jean is stuck in my head thanks a lot :)
Load More Replies...I remember when I was 7 I asked my mother why she was so fat. She said "You have 4 kids and see how skinny you are afterwards!" Sorry mom that I was more efficient than you...it took me just one kid...LOL
My older brother decided that the red things are "tambos", and ever after my dad called tomatoes "tambos".
Like my family calling hamburgers "Hang-a-burgers" because of how I pronounced it as a toddler...followed by the tradition of my husband and I saying "It's Froggy Outside" when my son mispronounced it. Good thing we don't live in San Francisco.
Or shout that your grey hair on your head needs a coloration soon while pointing on it...
And that you're sweating /really sweaty 😑 literally happened to me yesterday
Load More Replies...OMG This is the BANE of family life... exactly how many times you have to say "i wasn't talking to you"
What? *cups hand around ear * can you repeat that? Did you say something?
Or just wait until your parents get old and start to lose their hearing. Then not only to you get to repeat everything, but you get to say it progressively louder and louder each time. :)
Always at the grocery store and always after said child darted out into the main aisle on a busy Sunday.
It's all right mama Mt Dew is the best and you've paid your dues
Eating broccoli makes you grow tall and strong like a tree. There, I fixed it. Also, add cheese. Cheese helps almost every vegetable.
Wow, I bet you're a ton of fun at parties. Lighten up. Did you not read the title of the piece??
Load More Replies...I'm surprised his wife didn't remind him where the front door was after that comment. Why do men think that just because we are our child's diary/calender that we are automatically their's as well!
When my middle son was younger he thought Idaho would be a great place to live because of the potatoes. That's the only thing he knew about Idaho. 😆
That's the only thing anyone knows about Idaho unless they live there, so he's in good company!
Load More Replies...Tip: Dr Seuss' The Grinch,,, You can read the first paragraph on each page, skip the second paragraph and it still makes sense
