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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
My daughter locked me out of the house once while I was putting the washing up. Went to the window "open the door darling...". Up until I saw her face I thought it was an accident but she seemed way too pleased with herself. I had to break into my own house!
Same! I ended up finding an unlocked window and had to go through it. The window was little and over the sink. Still don’t know how I fit in there lol
Load More Replies...When I was little, I wondered why my mom said we had to have a housekey at ALL times ---- even if we just walked outside for two minutes. Turned out when she was young, her kid brother locked her out.... And boy, did she never forget it!
I once witness a kid locking the door to the loo (outdoor, public beach) from the outside and then wandering off. I had to rescue the mom... (The kid did say something about where they were going, and were returning to family, so no worries there.)
My 3-year-old daughter locked me out when I went out to the curb to put her sister into the kindergarten carpool car. When I got back to the front door, she gleefully informed me, "Mommy, I've locked you IN!" Then she tried, but couldn't unlock the door. I had to call the fire department to get back inside.
It seems strange to me that the fear is caused by a child making a mess, rather than a child being locked alone in a house.
I was pushing my 4-year-old on the swing, nice full pushes so I could run just inside to watch Sarah Vowell read from her book (before YouTube). When I ran back out after the fourth time, she unfastened the swing seatbelt, walked inside, latched the sliding door, then crawled through the doggie door “now you’ll stay outside and push me right!!!”
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!!!!!!
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!
Note: this post originally had 88 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.
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?
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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