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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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.
Have kids at a very young age if you prefer to be mistaken for their older brother or kindergarden intern 🙄 speaking from experience
Had the opposite...my sibling was born when I was 17 and his daycare workers were under the impression I was his mother for several months apparently. What makes that so much worse is the fact that my dad and I picked the baby up together and nobody seemed to find it odd that this 40 year old man seemingly had a teenage baby momma.
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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 ??
Must admit to being thrilled when people see me with my grandchildren and they assume I'm Dad!
Had something similar happen when me and my sister were in the mall with her twins. A man told us how nice it must be for mom and grandma to be out shopping with the kids. Back then we were 30 and 28 and we are often mistaken for twins ourselves so it was very confusing.
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.”
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Omg this was exactly me when I was younger. Still have most of them to this day
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.
HAHA!! You wish! If anything, you will probably be even more late than before... and you won't even be able to blame traffic!
She sees you when you're sleeping, she knows when you're awake...
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 "?"
Or shout that your grey hair on your head needs a coloration soon while pointing on it...
OMG This is the BANE of family life... exactly how many times you have to say "i wasn't talking to you"
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
I started laying out specific numbers of questions and comments. You get to ask 3 questions and make 2 comments on the movie, that sort of thing. After that, you either watch the movie, go play, or we turn it off. It only took about 3 movies to work.
Eating broccoli makes you grow tall and strong like a tree. There, I fixed it. Also, add cheese. Cheese helps almost every vegetable.
Tip: Dr Seuss' The Grinch,,, You can read the first paragraph on each page, skip the second paragraph and it still makes sense
