Parents Are Sharing Their Unsugarcoated Reality Of Raising A 9-Year-Old In 50 Funny Tweets
Parenting is a journey full of surprises and funny moments, especially when it comes to raising 9-year-olds. They're a delightful blend of curiosity, imagination, and mischief.
At this age, kids are maturing emotionally and becoming more cognitively advanced. They are continuing to grow taller and stronger and may be ready to tackle sports and other physical activities.
So we thought to compile the funniest tweets that encapsulate the rollercoaster ride of living with these little creatures. From their unfiltered honesty to their amusing adventures, you never know what they're going to come up with. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy the hilarity.
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The problem with this article is that every single one of the examples seems fake, which takes a lot away from the humor.
Yeah, but you used puppy eyes on me and convinced me! Mommy:1, Son:1
This is the perfect time to teach your child how lucky they are to have such wonderful giving parents and to share their luck by donating some of their things to less fortunate children. Some clutter is cleared, children are taught to share and the less fortunate children benefit. Everyone wins.
we've been doing that since I was little. There's two big boxes in my house, when we fill them up, it gets donated. When I notice my closet filling up, I get rid of some things. I thought it was normal but lately I've been thinking... What does everyone else do with the things they don't want/need anymore? Just throw it away? it seems so wasteful
Load More Replies...Good point. No more stuff for you. Happy birthday, here's an air guitar.
No, I think son lost that battle by giving Mom the authority to solve the problem.
I just feel this isn’t right. Your son wants to talk to you about something, and you tell him it is boring. The same thing happened to me. I talked a lot, my parents called me a chatterbox, now I don’t really tell them anything about me. Parents complain when we do talk, and complain when we stay silent. What are we supposed t do? Anyway, I’m not going to judge since I’m 13 and no children, but this is just what I feel. Could be wrong, sorry if it is and I insulted someone.
I've learned it's not good to put down your kid by using an enjoyable hobby against them
I agree. As long as it’s a harmless hobby- there is no need to disrespect what they like to do. This is why lots of older kids don’t talk to their parents- (almost) every time they bring up their hobby, their parent/s turn it against them.
Load More Replies...And there wouldn't be such a large community of Bored Pandas otherwise.
Accurate because my moms still alive after listening to me ramble on about Destiny, Apex Legends, Minecraft, and the occasional Jurassic park.
You see, baking the cake isn't the fun part -- eating the cake is the fun part.
It's raining today, so I'm going to do baking with my two kids. I predict that the 5yo will last a solid 20 minutes, while the 2yo will turn up for the spoon-licking and then leave. Both will, of course, let me clean up the mess. I'll let you know how it went. Wish me luck!
At 9 yrs old you tell her "No, we are going to finish this together, no TV till it's done."
Yep. And there's no shortage of ways kids can help all the way through the process. (Hell, by age nine, they could pretty much make the whole thing themselves with just supervision, and well-placed prompts as to what comes next. Delegate, parents!) If my son left to go watch TV after just starting to cook, he would not be eating the final result.
Load More Replies...you're more likely to get E. coli from unbaked flour. When you want to make edible cookie dough or cake batter, just spread out the amount of flour on a baking sheet and bake it at a certain temp for a few minutes. Plus whatever you're supposed to add instead of eggs
Load More Replies...No, don't be concerned, because this is a great idea. Just make sure that you tell your family to invite horrible people that you hate.
Someone said that they wanted to have someone dressed up as the grim reaper to just stand silently at the back of the funeral. I love this idea!
Dressed in black, wearing black sunglasses and holding an umbrella. Already have mine lined up. I live in drama, might as well depart in the same.
Load More Replies...No, just a mind game to make the person who get the bouquet of flowers extremely paranoid so much so that they actually panic themselves into their own demise.... Pretty standard if you ask me.
I'd pay good money to watch a bunch of 9yo's whack each other with lightsabers
I'd pay good money to watch the parents get whacked by light sabers. Heck, I'd pay good money to join in. Light saber fights are fun!
Load More Replies...The term is "youngling," which sounds disturbingly like a brand of beer made in Pennsylvania.
yeah, he'll be fine. Parent is the one who'll be tired ;)
Load More Replies...The reasons my son has given for coming down late at night range from “I don’t know” to “I farted”
When my girl was 9; it was summer and it didn't get dark till at least 22.00. She went to bed early ( school night) and actually slept. Until like 21.30. Came down, fully dressed and went like : good morning, what's for breakfast :) Thinking she had a full night of sleep, when it was 2 hours at the most.
Load More Replies...You got down voted, have an up vote from me. Yes, you spoke the truth.
Load More Replies...I can’t remember a single moment of fun at school, lol. Bullied and teased for 10 years straight and then my mom pulled me out of 8th grade and forced me to take the GED and start college at age 14. School STILL was not fun, not even in college XD
Load More Replies...I mean some of it is fun. Education is fun when you're 9. It's when you get to high school and it all turns to complicated formulas that it becomes a drag.
Knowledge is wonderful, but having to learn it sure sucks.
Load More Replies...I live in Florida, since desantis started screwing with schools I just say "try to survive the day!"
That burn was so hot, it'd just melt the ice! It's a 5th degree burn!
Load More Replies...My brother said this at 9. You'd be surprised.
Load More Replies...Technically, it's about bringing back long dead species and it's set in the 90s, so all he's saying is that we really did that!
I mean, it broke the ice, as it were. They're talking about bringing back mammoths now (probably not a great idea) and other extinct species like the Tasmanian tiger (worth a try). The book does a pretty good job of bringing up some of the actual problems with the idea, so in some ways it's almost a scientific analysis of a hypothetical experiment. I usually think of it as a sort of "scientific fiction" sub-genre of sci-fi, if that makes sense.
Load More Replies...Saw a woman in Target today with a kid throwing a major tantrum. She literally said out loud to the onlookers “Have kids they said. It’ll be fun they said.” And that was my reason #2478 why I’m glad I don’t have kids.
Load More Replies...Why on earth would you give your children a harmonica and bongo’s? Yes, that’s all I’ve got. I’m sorry.
Your children will never be professional musicians.
Load More Replies...My son does this too lmao. He's right.... I mean eight... Lmao when a typo roasts you 😂
I always got pissed off that the 'tooth fairy' gave my friends £10 per tooth whilst I only got £1!
“If there’s a steady pay check in it, I’ll believe anything you say.” - Winston Zeddmore
"Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?" "Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say."
...and probably at least one of those people deserved a good butt shot. (Not that the dog minded...
This made me laugh on a day I needed it. I don't know which one is funnier, the blood bank or the friend from grad school they haven't seen since 2000.
Jimmy owes him a turn on the swings. What's the issue here
Load More Replies...Give the kid the tape then stick a tracking device in their bag. You can still be a supportive parent whilst trying to avert a catastrophe.
And then he can buy more candy for that money, sell it and start a candy dealing empire.!
Dude I did this at school all the time, I would make like 100 dollars a week in November
People used to do this at my school. It was called the "candy black market." Kids were so desperate they'd buy a pack of stick of gum for a dollar no kidding
Load More Replies...The parents who don’t let their kids have candy should be damn glad they’re not harmful drugs.
I literally knew a kid that went around on lunch with a backpack full of Orbit gum he sold for $1/pack. Smart hustle. College ain't getting cheaper.
We had something similar small scale. It involved the older students going to the supermarket (the younger ones weren't allowed to leave during breaks) and buying stuff for them (for a delivery fee)
Until you meet and evil clothing manufacturer that puts tags on both front and back. I have a couple of pairs of shorts that I have and have put them on backwards more than once.
Load More Replies...I mean, if you are talking about leggings, joggers, or pajama pants it really is hard to tell without the tag.
Oh, I always felt the zip on my jeans should not be on the back. I gotta learn how to follow the tag tip now.
Unless you happen to have cheap pajama pants with the tag in the side seam and no discernable back/front, in which case you just pick a direction and stick with it.
Tag is then always on the left if not at back
Load More Replies...Doesn't work with some leggins that just don't have tags at all. But a good tip for tops.
I have to remind my hubby that it goes at the back… on the inside.
Finally, an insult for those of us who have not achieved the rank of captain yet
Reminds me of Tori from victorious “thank you Catherine obvious” okay now I want a play about her. Anyone else???
My stepmother's name is Catherine, and she always says everything you do like it's a problem. You've been on your phone for 30 minutes, You have a bad memory, 5 degrees (Celsius) is too cold for Sandals, ETC. Literally this "Catherine Obvious."
Catherine obvious sounds like the name of a scientist and pessimist
I'm 14 and i listen to 2000s music does this mean I'm old people
Late to the party but we were all born in the 2000's so now i feel so very very old.
Load More Replies...Old music and oldies are different things though. Old music is from like the 70s-2010s. Oldies are 50s and 60s.
Load More Replies...A bigger problem than being old, your 9 yo has terrible taste in music.
I inherited my parents music taste, so all I really listen to is The Vandals and Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space.
My son listens only to Dad rock. From year one. I had to play Billy Joel as a lullaby. I'm a Dad, so I can't say I didn't introduce it to him or that I don't like it, but it was apparently natural for him. "Dad rock" here refers to album-oriented rock from the late '60's until the domination of Alt rock in the 1990s.
Same here. Mine love "old music"- only they don't want to, because... well, very uncool. . So now they discovered "poison" from Alice Cooper. A great new song, mama !! Mmmm , I'm not gonna tell them. For then suddenly it is not so cool anymore. And I like the eighties (-ish) music.
Load More Replies...My granddaughter likes Mozart. I should probably not tell her she listens to dead people music at this time....
Yeah. There was another post on here where the mother found out 1/2 way through the divorce. That her daughter had lied about step dads other girlfriend.
Seriously. My kitchen leads to an enclosed patio which then leads to the backyard. Just yesterday morning I went to the kitchen while my dogs where outside and as soon as I grabbed the backage of bread they ran in and sat patiently behind me. They couldn't possibly have seen me at that angle but those damn hound ears heards the plastic. They're only part hound but I still can never have any food in peace
Load More Replies...The thing is, there is physically no way to open a pack of Oreos quietly, including getting an Oreo out of the package
well here's an early happy birthday! (I've also never understood why they say "happy early birthday" it's not like your birthday gets earlier)
Load More Replies...And ignore your kid? Maybe someone else is interested in hearing about their dream.
Load More Replies...Well, they have to describe each facial expression by acting it out meticulously, which takes time.
Nice flex! Sometimes they can take 5 years to explain the start of the intro!
My oldest used to take extra bags of Starbucks coffee (roommate gets a free pound a week) and started selling them to his friends 🙄 After we discovered it, I noticed I was still missing 3#. He kept them at school - just in case
I mean, that's smart but probably a bit annoying for you, ngl
Load More Replies...Trivia: When you catch a whiff of certain things you're inhaling the actual substance in its gaseous state. (.. ) 💨 ( ..)!
I’m 24 and I would sometimes say weird things like this out of the blue.
From how hard it made me laugh, I'm gonna go with, "Yeah. Definitely important."
WHY THEY CHANGED I CAN'T SAY! PEOPLE JUST LIKED IT BETTER THAT WAY!
Load More Replies...The Mother’s Day car my son made at school says “dear mummy, happy Mother’s Day. Can we have chocolate cake?”
I like to make sarcastic cards. My most recent Mother’s Day card saying “Without me you wouldn’t be celebrated today, so really you should be celebrating me.” She loved it.
Load More Replies...I can just see the kid so serious faced pointing at the card too. Like they want no part of it at all.
Thanks! Thanks for digging the blade a little bit deeper! Any chance, if you don't mind, of twist it while you at it?
Yes, they force you to show your parents gratefulness, except they don't have a designated day for non-binary parents/guardians :(
Calibration issue. Make sure they know how to make them better next time!
Those unicorns are ABSOLUTELY necessary if you want her to survive
Yeah, but the unicorns might magick socks into the room and then enchant the gawping children with their sparkles!
Yes, sometimes it's just a reminder too. I'll leave out an empty cereal box by the door as a reminder to buy for instance.
Load More Replies...I'm going to have to take note of this, for when empty things get left on my counter.
You can't leave us hanging like that! What happened?!
Load More Replies...Lol I have never been in a Staples… I may have to visit soon
Load More Replies...Like new paper and office supplies. ♥️ Amazing!!
Load More Replies...My 5yo went to a birthday party recently, and the parents of the birthday boy decided to put whistles in the party bags. I'm not sure if they're naive or vindictive.
Wait until they are asleep, and tomorrow the whistle sadly is untraceable. (no I don't have children)
Load More Replies...I love it when my kids are singing, especially when they don't realise they're doing it ❤
They might still be doing this in 34 years, don’t ask me how I know this
Try being woke up by a young adult at a super early hour by do you know the muffin man because they saw something on the internet
I'm fairly certain mine was 8. I remember it was the same summer he independently assigned himself the Hunger Games books. At eight. The best part was talking to him afterwards, with him pointing out plot holes and comparing this storyline with that storyline, and then throwing a whole different book storyline in there that had a parallel storyline progression. Too bad school forcing him to read things that did not awaken his curiosity nor hold his attention ruined his love of reading that I'd spent nearly a decade fostering and feeding, and watching it grow … it broke my heart.
A life long book lover, I HATED summer reading lists. Still think it's the dumbest thing. Why not something like like "read what you want, minimum x pages total, books must be at least x pages long".
Load More Replies...Honestly, I'd be thrilled if any kid of mine asked me that. Perfect opportunity to nerd out.
yes please!! asking for a friend obviously
Load More Replies...When mine was 10 years old and it was parents evening at school her teacher told me that if he ever needed brain surgery he would want her to perform it. She’d already told me what the dark web was along with a thousand science facts I hadn’t learned in school. I didn’t tell him that it would be a bad idea to let her near his brain as she would probably sell it on the dark web.
I remember talking about this with my family at teatime too. I then decided to google black market babies and see what came up.
They grow out of it magically then u get mad at the opposite soon dw :)
...or terrified that, if it gets too quiet, that they're up to something horrible.
Load More Replies...It's gets better as soon as they turn 18 and you march them into the Marines recruiting station, change the locks and stop paying for them
Article title: “ Parents Are Sharing Their Unsugarcoated Reality Of Raising A 9-Year-Old In 73 Funny Tweets”. Hey BP editors, since when is a 9-year-old a toddler? XD
Yet if we don't talk parents get annoyed... I struggle not to ramble but I get excited: (
Same. Don't ask me a question about airplanes (unless you have an hour).
Load More Replies...Worth it. You only have so many years you can beat them at physical stuff.
Beating my kid at physical stuff ended the day I gave birth to her and had to spend the next 6 months kneeling to change her nappies because my back couldn’t handle bending over. I was only 30😂😂😂
Load More Replies...At 35 I'm not so confident jumping rock to rock at the beach, I'm certain I'll injure myself.
Ah, you're good for a while yet. I was just exploring beaches at Seattle area. Hiked down spiral staircase with 5,000 steps to the beach, wandered around the rocks, hiked that same spiral staircase with 13,000 steps up the to the car. 👀☠️
Load More Replies...By that logic, my mum is still a kid. Every story starts with the detailed family history of each character, which is confusing since in my hometown everybody is related to everybody in some way or the other.
I learned to tell my then teenager: "bottom line it." My two youngest now (now teenagers) are on the spectrum, one nonverbal so I let the youngest talk all she wants.
My wife is 66 years old... I have to do the same... Luv her but the preamble to every 5 minute story takes 3 days.
Kids should come with a "skip intro" button, period. Better yet, a "fast forward to age 21" button.
It looks like a baby in a long-sleeved onesie bending over a dog bed.
Load More Replies...Some people can't generate pictures in their brains. Me, I make homemade movies in my brain everytime I read but finding out my kid can't picture anything and just thinks in sounds is alien to me.
I can't generate moving pictures in my head, and I often think in book pages. Like I'll visualize a book page as my thoughts
Load More Replies...My 2 yr old: best I can do is sit on your lap while you sit on the toilet, screaming my head of because you threatened to leave me alone with my sister and dad so you could have a private poop
While this is funny, it is also a quite concerning mindset for kids to have.
When I serve my son dinner I say "Thank you mum' n he goes "Your welcome son'. 😐
Some things never change. My mom used to say that to me; I'm almost 40 😂
Load More Replies...In my case it’s me (16 f) cosplaying as an elf cause I got bored and my sister (13 f) desperately trying to deny we’re related
Load More Replies...If this helps, I'm 28 & pretend that I don't know my dad when we're in public. It never changes.
Toddlerists, they're toddlerists! This is what my son calls his 20 mo. 😆 🤣
Toddlerists... ahhhhahaha! I'm definitely using this for the great-grandkids.
Load More Replies...This is basically the aftermath of 9yo hearing a word at school and not being sure of what it means.
I was forging at least 4 signatures at 8, my granddad's, my mom's, and 2 if my aunties'. I only ever forged if I did my homework in the morning right before school, cause no one would sign it then. I also signed for my cousin (who was a year ahead of me)
This is good moment to explain how forging a signature is a felony in most places.
In 7th grade, the teacher accused me of forging my mom's signature. She called my mom and "told" on me. My mom had to convince the teacher that she signed it.
I used to forge my mum's for some stupid school thing. She acted like she knew when asked by my teacher, awesome mum.♥️
When I would do that, wear headphones without music, and someone would ask me what I'm listening to, I would say the voices in my head, and then smile.
I would pretend I can't hear them and keep "listening to the music"
Load More Replies...Who knows, you might buy them a horse after they ask you for the 79th time…. Maybe the 181st time? Well, the 302nd time is a charm! Right?…
Old enough? Yes. Skilled enough? If he/she has Parkinson’s, then yes.
I assign 1 item per year. So the 9yo should eat like 9 items and not like 1 more than that.
But why does she have an iPad if she's not allowed to have a phone. How is one of them more or less suitable for a kid than the other?
they're basically the same thing, but one is more expensive and you can't call people on it.
Load More Replies...Sugar sugar, fruit sugar, fruit sugar, and egg protein. 100% a balanced breakfast.
Daughter was not a morning person. At all. That 'I have to dress her while carrying her to breakfast' sort. One of her spawn was same way, and I'm here to tell you I listened to her stories about that child with unabashed glee. 😬
To be fair, there is always a chance at happy hour of having to pick something out of something and someone getting into arguments.
Having dinner with my daughter yesterday. Asked her to put down her phone during dinner so we could chat. We started talking about her latest obsession Dr Who. I say: "Christopher Ecclesston's accent is great, where's that from? Hang on I'll google where he's from" grabs phone. "Could you also google Hypocrite?"
Loll my family right there. Kids aren't allowed phones at the tables. My dad even complains if my mum is on her phone but my dad is on his phone sometimes
Load More Replies...Last year I bought my son a magazine called Rail123 which lists every class of locomotive/train currently operating on the uk railways along with the individual numbers. He keeps quizzing me on it. “How many class 450’s are there?” I have no idea but he will tell me the answer. Yesterday walking home from school he stopped an older child in the street and accused him of being an imposter. This other kid was wearing a red Among Us t shirt
Standing in line at the movie theater concessions with then girlfriend and my 9 year old son. Son points to man ahead of us in line and says "Hey daddy. That man is wearing a Red Sox hat." "Yes he is" I replied. "But doesn't he know the Red Sox suck?" This was, of course prior to 2004. Still didn't go over well.
Having dinner with my daughter yesterday. Asked her to put down her phone during dinner so we could chat. We started talking about her latest obsession Dr Who. I say: "Christopher Ecclesston's accent is great, where's that from? Hang on I'll google where he's from" grabs phone. "Could you also google Hypocrite?"
Loll my family right there. Kids aren't allowed phones at the tables. My dad even complains if my mum is on her phone but my dad is on his phone sometimes
Load More Replies...Last year I bought my son a magazine called Rail123 which lists every class of locomotive/train currently operating on the uk railways along with the individual numbers. He keeps quizzing me on it. “How many class 450’s are there?” I have no idea but he will tell me the answer. Yesterday walking home from school he stopped an older child in the street and accused him of being an imposter. This other kid was wearing a red Among Us t shirt
Standing in line at the movie theater concessions with then girlfriend and my 9 year old son. Son points to man ahead of us in line and says "Hey daddy. That man is wearing a Red Sox hat." "Yes he is" I replied. "But doesn't he know the Red Sox suck?" This was, of course prior to 2004. Still didn't go over well.
