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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.
I had a big stuffed doll that I made in my booth at the craft fair. A dad with a little girl about 3 or 4 years old was browsing. The little girl had a plastic toy cell phone. She put it up to her ear and said "Hello. Just a second." Then she handed it to the doll and said "It's for you." The dad was speechless for a minute, then he said "This means I have to buy it for her, don't I?" It was a hoot to see him walking around the fair with the toddler's hand in one hand and a 3 foot tall rag doll in the other.
Speaking of phones if anyone wants a good April fools prank turn on Switch Control on someone's iPhone. And turn on Precise for the gliding cursor.
Better check to see what kiddo posted to all your social media accounts while you're at it.
Yea, I let my 3yo grandson play with my phone and now I have 52 pictures of his feet.
I have a friend whose granddaughter, age 3, took her phone, then called 9-1-1 to get the code to use it. Police came and explained to her that wanting to use the phone was not an emergency. She said it was....her grandmother was mortified.
I honestly want to become a parent just for this. The hand pics would probably break up the piles and piles of Ragnarok pics and silly TikToks, honestly. Or maybe just a 'fun aunty' who lets the kids get away with actual murder.
This just reminded me of a story lol. So my brother was like 3, and he stole the home phone without our parents noticing. All of a sudden I hear my mom screaming into the phone trying to explain that it was a wrong number. My mom slumps down on the couch and says "the boy just called an old Korean lady. She didn't speak english." And, of course, my 4 year old self just starts howling with laughter. It was a rough night.
S**t, that movie gave ME nightmares and I was mid 30 when I saw it!!!!!!
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!
Can grown-ups have a designated cookie tummy too? And can it have a faster metabolism than our usual tummy?
My sister and I got along (by that I mean actually talking to each other, not yelling, not getting into a physical fight) for a total of about 6 months in the almost 50 years we've been alive. Luckily it's the complete opposite with my brother.
When I was a preschooler, I had several speech impediments. I called dumptrucks "dumb f***s." My grandmother was horrified.
Must be locked then, or it wouldn’t be closed, and you’d be holding court from “the throne” with kids and animals all present and accounted for.
And then expecting your child to be honest with and not lie to you. Instead of saying "no" we prefer to lie to our children. What does that teach them? 1. Lying is fine (yes, they can tell when you lie to them most of the time, which can lead to trust issues) 2. There is never a "no" for me in this world = entitlement. Now I am not judging parents who do this, I totally understand that desperate situations sometimes lead to unwise decisions and how hard it may be to say "no" to those cute people. But it is necessary for them. And for you.
I just tested and I can type like 72 words a minute.
And if you don't have kids, your spouse will talk to you whenever you are wearing headphones.
Put it in a travel mug with a vacuum seal. It’ll be portable, stay warm longer, and won’t spill if “nobody” knocks it over.
Our education was based on the "It won't kill them so let them try it." principle. That's how I learned that a peanut butter, gravy, cucumber, ham sandwich doesn't taste as good as I thought it would.
And spend the next 3 weeks hearing the annoying sound they made up! No thank you
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?
Load More Replies... 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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