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Parenting is difficult. It's rewarding. And Anastasiya Lykova perfectly illustrates every bit of it in her cute comics. No wonder, the Russian artist is currently raising a baby boy so she's really well-versed in sleepless nights, temper tantrums, you know, the whole shebang. Continue scrolling to check out the chaotic reality of bringing up a child through Lykova's eyes and upvote your favorite pictures!
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blugeagua 5 years ago
people won't automatically assume its a child doing that.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
My son did that to me with a Hot Wheels. Scratched my cornea AND blackened my eye.
Lynn Morello 5 years ago
Obviously, if a mum with any kids has any injury, it is always the dads fault. B,S.
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Be careful about making snap judgments and jumping to conclusions.
Audrey Smith 5 years ago
When my little brother was about 1.5 or 2, he was standing on my lap and slammed his head back right into my eye and I had a small black eye for a little.
"My son's name is Timothy, he is two years old," Lykova introduced her boy to Bored Panda. "He is very humble with strangers, but a real boss with relatives, especially his mother."The artist said that her life has changed a lot since she brought Timothy into this world. And only for the better.
"After his birth, there was a strong reappraisal of values, during which I found my destiny. Also, I realized that before Timothy, I had a lot of free time and opportunities that I did not appreciate."
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
Knows abc's, all the presidents and higher order calculus, but you're the only one she does it in front of
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
What's most annoying is when other parents tell you what their kid is capable of, then they ask specific questions about YOUR kid. Can he say the alphabet? Count to 30? BTW - It turns out later that nobody cares that your kid could recite the alphabet at 4 months. No college admission board is going to ask that.
Hans 5 years ago
All children have astonishing abilities, just not all have obvious one. However, fortunately not all parents have a boasting tendency.
Charlotte 5 years ago
There is a line between boasting and just being super excited and proud of every little thing done by this astonishing person you somehow fricking GREW! Sometimes it's hard to contain the joy they give you.
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Ronel du Plessis 5 years ago
My one friend's daughter was born 3 months before my son. When the girl could sit, she would let me know that she can sit before my son can! Her exact words were "my baby can sit before yours!" 3 months difference in babies development is sort of a huge difference. I just smiled and sent back a thumbs up.
However, the 29-year-old agreed that motherhood has its challenges. "I have very little time that I can devote to myself and my personal development in other areas, of course, there's also a greater financial constraint." But all of these things are mere nuances. Her boy means the world to Lykova and she's thankful for every second that she gets to spend with him.
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nanashi 5 years ago
when we were growing up, we got into the sticker craze and sticks to any surface we could reach. didn't understand why my mom was upset seeing our "works". but now I see my nephews doing the same in my brother's house, I finally understand. sorry mom.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
Exactly. I can remember thinking they looked cool, but now I see them as sticky pieces of vandalism.
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GenXandEarnedItAll 5 years ago
My daughter decided that a brand new roll of snail mail stamps would look great all over the house.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
When my son was a toddler he got into stickers. They'd pop up on the tv, microwave, stove, counters, edges of tables and chairs. I'm still finding dried adhesive in places.
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mermaidgirl960 5 years ago
Oh my God, this reminds me of a story with my sister! So basically we were at my grandparents' house and they had a lot of old toys, probably vintage, in our room. There were old folks, clowns, bears, but the worst toy was... Mike Wazowski. Okay, we had this toy on a shelf of Mike Wazowski and it made noises every time it was pressed. Since it was old, it was really broken, it started playing on its own. At midnight, it started talking and nearly gave us a heart attack. My sister turned it off and we went back to sleep. It went off again and she told me to ignore it. Eventually, it was just a creepy distorted voice and me and my sister were like, "Okay, we need to burn this... Now." We grabbed the thing, freaking out everytime it made a noise and crept out into the den. She ripped open the back and tried to pull the batteries out. She then threw it on a table or something like that and we ran back to our room. We went back to sleep but when my sister fell asleep, I heard a voice... O.O
mermaidgirl960 5 years ago
Sorry, this was so long. I just wanted to share my story xD
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nickymiST.elliefreak 5 years ago
That my mother right there! Sometimes, when I was younger I would have a bad dream and I would come to her and just POKE HER and she would say, "yes?" as if she were awake all that time. I would ask her, "are you really asleep?" and she would say yes. How she does it? All she says is, "You'll know when you're a mother." (P.S. I'M NOT GONNA B A MOTHER!!!!)
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juice 5 years ago
cartoons in general? nothing. there are some really great cartoons. there are also some really terrible ones (*cough* Caillou *cough*). maybe parents just focus on the bad or annoying ones?
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Jef Bateman 5 years ago
I think it is fascinating how hard some parents work to get their kids to eat. I know there is such a thing as "failure to thrive," but mostly kids will eat when they need to.
Ravioli 2 weeks ago
My grandma always said, if they don't eat now they'll eat later. Worst case scenario your kid is a bit thinner till teenage years, big deal.
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Peter Knudson 5 years ago
there are plenty of cartoons that are educational, they have been proven to increase creativity too. and the irony of this being a cartoon itself just tickles me.
Maryam Siddiqui 5 years ago
no sitting in front of a screen for 5 hours per day is great for ur eyes and bain😑
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
No one really talked about the hair loss after childbirth so when I was losing big clumps of hair I freaked out. It is completely normal.
Daniela Kropeit 5 years ago
Both, an amazing hormonal change during pregnancy and hair doesn't fall out. My doctor explained that the body needs to concentrate all energy on creating the baby so temporarily "switches off" certain processes and re-establishes them after birth.
Susan Mercurio 5 years ago
I didn't do that after delivery; it happened when the little dears would wind their little fists in my long hair and Pull. It. Out. (I cut my hair.)
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Rissie 5 years ago
So true. Because with kid number two you're like, how was a newborn ever heavy... When with my firstborn it was never not heavy.
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Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Also, why does my baby look even cuter in someone else's arms? I think it's because I'm not distracted by back pain.
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Yeah this is why I enjoy my baby more when I'm sitting down. She's 20 pounds and I'm 115.
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Hans 5 years ago
Nice one. And probably the right one for all those that will comment the series again with "finally no children for me".
giovanna 5 years ago
Well, not really. I've never commented like this. I totally respect other people's choices, I am sure that raising a child is very difficult but also very rewarding - for those who wanted children in the first place. But I've never wanted children, and it's not that the "knowing that someone needs you in this world" would change anything in my decision... if anything, it makes it stronger!
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Debbie 5 years ago
there is no lack of people already who need us, no need to "produce our own"
Ravioli 2 weeks ago
They "need" because they decide to have you do things for them, babies actually do NEED us or they'll literally f****n die
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Kim Lorton 5 years ago
Being a kid at heart and, yet, a functioning adult, when your mom passes away, you are very glad you always told her, " mom, I will always need you!" Even after you're gone...
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TerrySane 5 years ago
Until it is some garbage from floor or worst from his mouth :D
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Hseed 5 years ago
Keep up!!! I'm so proud of my wife for that... society is so f'd up with breastfeeding. It should be encouraged, not embarrassing! And of course I'm ok with the formula option, just don't make weird what should be (and is) the natural option.
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
The average age, in the world, at which women stop breastfeeding is when the child is 4 or 5. It's higher in countries where the water supply isn't safe or water is hard to get (long walk, etc.) Breastfeeding is very natural.
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Débora Gualberto 5 years ago
How ridiculous is this way of yours. In my country is more than normal to see someone breastfeed a baby everywhere! Park, shopping mall, restaurants, the beach, etc etc. If anyone would dare to try and shame the lady or tell her to stop doing that in public because it bothers them hell would fall on that person! And not only from the mother, from everyone around it!
Daniela Kropeit 5 years ago
Here in Spain too, DebxG. Breastfeeding is natural and there is nothing wrong about it. Whoever sees something else than what it is, has simply a dirty mind.
JLaw 5 years ago
Not to mention that breastfeeding is hard and it can be very painful. I will never judge a woman who decides to formula feed instead of breastfeeding. I trained as a breastfeeding helper in the UK when my babies were small, and I was doing my best to feed them. No one has any idea what a woman goes through before she makes her choice. As a volunteer my job was to signpost, give information and above anything else support anyway I could. New mothers are so vulnerable and the last thing they need is to be harassed about the way they feed their baby, whether that be breastfeeding or formula. Be kind.
Susan Mercurio 5 years ago
Some people think that breasts are only put on women's chests to titillate men. So, if a woman is breastfeeding her baby, they substitute a man in place of the baby.
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BTW, folks, I lost my pregnancy weight in six months because I breastfed. The extra weight you pack on during pregnancy is supposed to be a healthy margin for breastfeeding. So don't complain when you're carrying around that extra weight six years later, if you thought that breastfeeding was too much work!
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Hans 5 years ago
Haha, didn't I comment on that a few minutes ago? You could cut those nails daily, it still happens.
mermaidgirl960 5 years ago
Sooo true! My brother scratches me sooo much and no joke, he could beat me in an arm wrestle. Mind you, I'm a teenager and he's an infant -_-
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
OMG - first time I cut my newborn son's fingernails he moved just right. I cut off the tiniest sliver of the top of his thumb (it hardly bled at all) but he screamed & I screamed. He fell asleep less than 20 minutes later. I was traumatized for MONTHS!
THE DOG LIFE 5 years ago
Couldn't filing your child's nails be an alternative? or is that harder than clipping the nails?
Daniela Kropeit 5 years ago
I've never had so many scratches and bruises in all my life as now during the last 2 wonderful years with my little boy <3
Nicole Tomme 5 years ago
My mother in laws' trick for baby nails: cuticle scissors. God bless that woman.
Jim Kang 5 years ago
I've always been the one to clip my kids nails. My wife still doesn't. My oldest is 16.
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Er... you're not still doing it though are you?
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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
So true! I scared a few ppl when I stood in queues in late stage pregnancy XD I'd turn to the side and inevitably hear a 'whoah'
Hans 5 years ago
Remember from a certrain lengths you should install a flashing red light!
Load More Replies... Jef Bateman 5 years ago
Everybody looks different than they think from the side. I am on a mission to destroy every profile picture taken of me.
Wanderlust 5 years ago
I remember seeing a vine of a similar girl. She looked all skinny from the back view til she moved to the side. I thought she had swallowed a beach ball that is angling like a potato
PrincessTheSiameseKat 4 years ago
oh gosh this reminded me when i was in kindergarten we did a draw your hero being a hero and i drew a pic of my mom pregnant looking like a circle with 4 tiny sticks coming out and a small round head with jagged hair lines
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Annabeth Chase 5 years ago
I think not! It is about a year old! How old were you when you were taught to walk?
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FoxCat 5 years ago
ah yes, yet another plight of being the older sibling...
Load More Replies... Lilsomms 5 years ago
When my daughter was 2 months old she legitimately lifted her leg while nursing, RIPPED one, and grunted in relief. I almost dropped her I was crying so hard from laughter.
nina♡luvs bts 5 years ago
Your comment made me drop my phone from all the laughter
Load More Replies... Ronel du Plessis 5 years ago
LOL!!! and the mom is still wearing the same clothes as well!! I often wondered about myself. I still have pants and tops from before my eldest was born. He is 17 now.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Ewww - teenage boy farts are ALMOST as bad as their shoes and socks. I literally had a separate hamper on THE PATIO for my son's socks.
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Hans 5 years ago
Children rarely get too cold despite our tendency to add the blanket. Can be done 10 times an hour, does not help anyway.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
One benefit of living in the desert is that I re-learned how to sleep with no blankets. It was seriously hard at first--I would cover up even in the middle of summer. I can also sleep sitting up, which I learned from Quaker meeting.
Mazama de Soto 5 years ago
Removing blankets from near the infant decreases the chances of SIDS
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cat man 5 years ago
i know when i roller blade on them it is so hard and for no reason how about we use plastic melt it down and use that for roads it will be smooth,cheap, and more ecofreindly because people will just throw away bottles
James Wood 5 years ago
That sounds like an awesome idea, except my concern would be that natural wear and tear from cars driving over (as well as weather) would leech even MORE microplastics into OUR ecosystem. This is already happening now with the synthetic fibers in clothing every time it is washed. :/
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Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Weight of my double stroller fully loaded with kids and items: about 100 pounds. I weigh 115. One of my postpartum fitness goals is to be able to push it to and from the park down the hill. Not sure yet if that's a reasonable goal.
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Jef Bateman 5 years ago
Children in tantrums can be overwhelming. Go to another room and get some distance before you lose your temper.
TerrySane 5 years ago
My son is always folowing me and still crying etc. I usually starts laughting it is so stupid.
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Thunder 5 years ago
With my family... Around Christmas and New Year my family is just perfect idk why
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Hans 5 years ago
"Sleep like a baby" is really a stupid idiom. I prefer not to sleep like a baby, because it means to frequently wake up.
Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago
My boyfriend's been saying that for years. "Why would you want to sleep like a baby?! You mean you want to c**p yourself and cry all night??"
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Jef Bateman 5 years ago
Some babies sleep and some don't. It's not so much the noise as how the kid is wired.
Anggi Santika 5 years ago
I still think my kids has 6th sense about where I am... They are 7 and 4..
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Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
So true. 1 hour to get all 3 ready just to be out for 15 minutes.
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Susan Mercurio 5 years ago
Yeah, when they advertise treatments for grey hair, I always ask, "Do they have children?" When my son objected to my grey hairs, I told him that I earned them, and started pulling them up and telling him, "This is the one named (son). And this is the one named (daughter)."
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
And this is not when your children are all grown. This is 5-10 years after 1st child is born.
Susan Mercurio 4 years ago
I read that some researchers had a study to find out why people get grey hair. I thought that they should try to find out why people without children should get grey hair.
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Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
This is why with all 3 children I just didn't work out until they were at least a year old. It's impossible without a babysitter...and guess whether baby is happy with a babysitter?
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Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Makes you wonder how mothers handle large families. Or maybe they do like the Country Mouse: #1 looks after #9.
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
YES #1 looks after #9. I only have 3 kids, ages 1-5, and my 5 yr old helps.
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Several hours! more like 2 years lol. Well for me anyway.
Jenna Bois 5 years ago
I'm 8.5 years later and I've still not had that thought ;)
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Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
We secrete a hormone that actually tricks our brain into thinking "it wasn't THAT bad". Yeah, b******t.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
From my experience in my family, some women can block the pain from their memories, while other remember it vividly. You can tell which women are which by how many kids they have.
Lilsomms 5 years ago
And sorry, one more thing. You can't remember the pain. It's actually impossible. You know it hurt, but our brains block that actual feeling of pain from being relived for our own good.
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Zuila 5 years ago
I let the kids cook with me. They have fun and I get to cook the meal without fuss.
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
Do you have a clean lady to help you ? O omelet take 5 minutes to do and other 5 to clean, with kids help all this take 1 hour.
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Shelley DuVal 5 years ago
And there's more chance they will actually eat something they have helped cooked
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Rosemari Ferreira Gebbran 5 years ago
I play with the kid, run around, clean the house and work a freaking lot and I'm still fatter than before pregnancy.
Susan Mercurio 4 years ago
I breastfed. Lost my pregnancy weight in six months.
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Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Kids ALWAYS play with "educational" toys and games in every way except the intended way.
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
That is why you should have all the changing stuff ready prior to taking the nappy off. If you have boys have 2 new nappies but to the side and as soon as you take the nappy off quickly cover the penis with a new one so if they wee it soaks into the new nappy instead of the carpet/floor etc. If he pees in the new nappy then at least you already have another spare.
Hans 5 years ago
I also learned to in any instance not to try it with them standing. It is merely too dangerous.
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BPisawesome 4 years ago
One time my sister got to my lipstick and she’s a baby so it was a disaster
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Ravioli 2 weeks ago
? They start teething at 5 months and most moms today breastfeed till 1 years old. The actual recommendation is 2 years old and there's really no cut off when breastfeeding stops being beneficial.
Load More Replies... Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
This happened to my grandmother when she was breastfeeding my aunt. She still had the scar well over 50 years later.
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TheHerplover 5 years ago
I actually saw someone bring their toy poodle to a sandbox with kids in it, set the dog down, the dog pooped, and it bit one of the kids. The lady then walked away as if nothing happened
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Some people should not be allowed to breed.
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ZooMom 5 years ago
When our son was born I taught my husband choking/CPR protocol. I never will forget what an instructor told me when I balked at the force required when attempting to dislodge an obstruction/perform compressions on an infant doll. “Trust me, when you are trying to save his life, bruises are the least of your worries.” I thought this was valuable as real scenario advice and repeated it to my concerned husband during the doll demonstration. One year later he saved our son’s life when he swallowed a cracker whole in another room. This hits home.
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GenXandEarnedItAll 5 years ago
This is the pain scale I use on my patients who aren't critical. 0-no pain, 10-stepping on a lego in the middle of the night on your way to the bathroom. Humor is the best medicine.
BPisawesome 4 years ago
My mum uses a scale of pain from 0-feels like nothing to 10-feels like child birth🤣😂🤣😂
Toni Carroll 5 years ago
I sew all the time. I step on pins and needles. Legos are not a problem. hehehe.
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GenXandEarnedItAll 5 years ago
I think a chip is implanted on our ear and butt while we're in the recovery room. As soon as you try to make a phone call or sit on the toilet it sends a signal to your children telling them they need something from mommy.
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GenXandEarnedItAll 5 years ago
I usually hear my chairs scraping across the floor on its way to something up high that was put up there to keep it from my kids...
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Helena R 5 years ago
My two year old 'fed' his dinosaur coco pops this morning and brought it upstairs to me. He's a very caring child when he's not licking the trees in the garden
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Kids are wondeful - but there are a lot of reasons we have birth control.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
Whenever my son gets a new toy he treats it like a living thing. The most recent was a little stuffed chicken, Chicka (clever right) needed to have a small bowl filled with cereal during meals.
Helena R 5 years ago
My two year old 'fed' his dinosaur coco pops this morning and brought it upstairs to me. He's a very caring child when he's not licking the trees in the garden
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Kids are wondeful - but there are a lot of reasons we have birth control.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
Whenever my son gets a new toy he treats it like a living thing. The most recent was a little stuffed chicken, Chicka (clever right) needed to have a small bowl filled with cereal during meals.
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