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It’s Time For The Best Parenting Tweets Of The Month, And Here Are The Best Ones This October (40 Pics)
Happy spooktacular month! If you are a parent, this time may be especially busy for you. From creating a smashing DIY Halloween costume for your little daredevil to some of you still homeschooling your kids, working from home, and trying not to worry too much about the future in these uncertain times.
So for those of you who need a little pick-me-up, we have a monthly treat—this hilariously relatable compilation with parenting tweets baked straight out of the oven. From kids’ shenanigans to parents sharing their daily wisdom in painfully funny one-liners, October’s list has it all.
Get yourself a pumpkin spice latte, scroll down, upvote your favorite posts, and let us know how your parenting game has been going this month in the comments!
If you've fallen behind on the series, fire up our earlier collections: September, August, and July.
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From our monthly parenting tweets series, we all have realized how being a mom or a dad is not for everyone. It requires a sheer amount of patience, dedication, and thinking ‘outside the box’ which, unsurprisingly, makes being a parent among the hardest jobs out there.
The only harder thing than being a parent is being a single parent, tackling all the challenges of raising your kid on your own. So to find out more about the hardships of being a single parent, we spoke with Natalie Maximets, a certified life transformation coach at “Online Divorce,” which is a professional divorce document preparation service with 20 years of market history.
“Being a single parent is equally difficult for both a mother and father,” Natalie said and added that most of these difficulties appear during puberty. “Do you think it is easy for a father to talk to his daughter about the first menstrual period or go together to choose the first bra? At the very least, it will be awkward for both.”
However, single dads face quite a lot of other challenges in addition to the ones mentioned above. “Many single fathers do not want to be overly strict with their children. Instead, they try to be soft, caring, and reasonable so that children do not feel neglected. In the same way, single fathers often try to make up for the absence of a mother in the family.” Natalie explained that this often leads to the fathers overindulging their children or giving up discipline altogether
Moreover, as confusing as it sounds, single fathers are often very protective of their children when solving personal problems. Natalie explained that such behavior happens because “they want to protect their child from everything that can upset or negatively affect them, like a mother hen. New friends or a date? It will be difficult for a potential partner/friend to gain the trust of a single father.”
Work-life balance is also something that single parents often have trouble with. “It is difficult to provide for their children and be with them all the time (except, of course, if you work remotely). A single father sometimes has to sacrifice something, and children do not always understand this. From here, there may be misunderstandings and alienation between parent and child,” the life transformation coach concluded.
Been there. Done that. It's really hard to lose at Candyland as it really is a game of chance. I started cheating with the preschooler and drawing multiple cards.
S**t, that movie gave ME nightmares and I was mid 30 when I saw it!!!!!!
"As above so below" did that with my one godson. I'm still in the parents' doghouse about that, but they said "Let him watch anything he wants." .....
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Yeeeaa so when my oldest (19) was about 13 I took her to see Sausage Party. In my defense, It looked adorable. I mean ... talking food!! And the trailer with the baby carrots "they're eating CHILDREN" I laughed so hard I choked..... Spoiler alert: that was the only CUTE part in it. But I paid a crap ton to go (single mom) so we sure did stay. *face palm. So I win Mr. Andrew O.
i mean......did you not watch the rest of the preview? Or know who wrote it? Its also called Sausage Party......the R rating coulda been a nice indicator though
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LMAO, I felt the same way when I allowed my niece and nephew to watch Annabelle the Creation, 15yr and 9yr respectively. I cannot believe I let them trick me..
Oh my gosh I read the plot summary of it and it's probably the most terrifying movie I've heard of. Especially when you look at the UK ending! What re you Brits so set on a scary ending too??
If this is the flick I'm thinking of, it was laughably over the top, the kind wherein the blood is too red and gushy, with overly dramatic dialogue/action, and continuity problems.
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When i was younger i always had the same nightmare every few weeks. Every time i would wake up a bit later then the previous time, and in the end the dream would just be over. When i was like 14 a friend of mine explained a scary movie she just saw with her sister, it was a bit of an older movie so nothing that just came out. She started talking about what happened in the movie and i could finish it because it was exactly like how my nightmare went when i was i kid. I asked my dad if he ever saw the movie my friend told about and he said yes but it was a long time ago (8years or something). Apparently i was in the room with him when he was watching the movie and had years of the same nightmare because of it.
I watched Evil Dead, Dead Alive, Chucky back to back when I was around 13-14 and home alone. Was brave while watching it but later I was scared to death.
Were you home alone the days after too?! Did this in at 7 yrs w/ Coraline ( I know Coraline isnt scary but at 7 it did give me nightmares)
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I was 9 when I mom allowed me to watch Event Horizon, after I begged her to. I've always loved scary movies. I'd caught that one on tv one night and when mom realized what I was watching she said it would scare me, but I insisted it wouldn't. Cue lifetime fear of the dark.
You can't just watch the first one, you gotta watch the 2nd right after!
50 here, and still can't watch The Exorcist and The Shining. There are others.
It is a terrifying movie. I can't watch it because I can't handle scary things, but I've heard about it and it's probably one that will give that kid nightmares for a long time.
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That's what I propose to teenagers asking me for scary movies at the library during Halloween. If they still complain The Descent didn't scare them enough, I go for Ari Aster's Hereditary.
Don't let them see "Doc Savage, man of Bronze" My siblings and I still have problems from watching it about 45 years ago
There were four when I was young, all B&W (cause I'm that old). The Spider, with the giant cave spider, on display in the HS gym, that was only stunned and went on a rampage; this one gave me nightmares of the giant spider leg reaching thru the window. One with alien lizard people in obviously zippered suits (my family thought it was hilarious that I was scared even after they pointed out the zippers) that took over the kid's family as evidenced by their nape implants. One with scientists being devoured by nuclear giant crabs that absorbed their intelligence so they could attack better and eventually talk. And the tale end of the not-as-announced double feature wherein the shape shifters leave as water gushes into a swimming pool of human-shaped ash piles.
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Someone put the first Saw movie on for my niece when she was 6 needless to say my sister was not happy
As a 60-yr old ex Navy Marine Engineer w/Naval boarding party training, and ef'it, I won't watch that one.
I saw that movie drunk and let me tell you it was a bad time. I pulled an all nighter I was scared to go to sleep.
I didn't think The Descent was that scary at all. Watch Green Inferno if you want to be scared 😱
Yeah I agree with you The Descent was not at all scary for me. Adding Green Inferno to watch list.
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It would be interesting to understand what happens in the brain when watching scary or violent shows. Are the effects short or long term?
My grandson had a major meltdown because I gave him gummy bears. He wanted gummy worms. Literally the same thing just in a different shape. Learned my lesson real quick!
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This was a great posting. So glad to know I'm not the only one with a chaotic life. Parenting is never boring, that's for sure. A new adventure everyday. But I love it!!!!!!
Surprised not to see stepped on Lego make the list somewhere - you have not felt pain till you have stepped on a Lego block, barefoot at 3am
Yes…or, little bitty beads that you think you’ve swept all up during the day, but you discover, barefoot, in the wee hours of the morning, and they stick to the bottom of your feet, while you’re trying not to wet your jammies and you say bad words. Really bad words.
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Look forward to November? Nah. Look forward to Parenting Tweets. Literally every month.
I can laugh now, but I once said to someone "He is my favorite dad!" and my father roared, "I'm you ronly father!" and that's how those darned daydreams get discovered. *sigh*
My dauthers say the same thing to me. I tell them they are my favorite E and T (their names). Its an internal joke
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Because a toxic, spiteful, insulting, hateful scrooge like you could do better?
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This was a great posting. So glad to know I'm not the only one with a chaotic life. Parenting is never boring, that's for sure. A new adventure everyday. But I love it!!!!!!
Surprised not to see stepped on Lego make the list somewhere - you have not felt pain till you have stepped on a Lego block, barefoot at 3am
Yes…or, little bitty beads that you think you’ve swept all up during the day, but you discover, barefoot, in the wee hours of the morning, and they stick to the bottom of your feet, while you’re trying not to wet your jammies and you say bad words. Really bad words.
Load More Replies... Look forward to November? Nah. Look forward to Parenting Tweets. Literally every month.
I can laugh now, but I once said to someone "He is my favorite dad!" and my father roared, "I'm you ronly father!" and that's how those darned daydreams get discovered. *sigh*
My dauthers say the same thing to me. I tell them they are my favorite E and T (their names). Its an internal joke
Load More Replies... Because a toxic, spiteful, insulting, hateful scrooge like you could do better?
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