Just a quick round-up of some funny and relatable posts from parents.
Hope these bring you some smiles!
Janene
#1
One thing no one mentions in the baby books is how to store the rocks that suddenly appear in your house when you have children. So many inside rocks.
— Shannon (@ShannonJCurtin) February 2, 2023
#2
The 5yo lost one of her toys and was looking all over the house and I finally found it and brought it up to her room and said “who’s the best mommy in the world?” and that kid looked me dead in the eye and said “grandma.”
— Dinah (@dinahaddie) February 5, 2023
#3
I’m on a business trip and I get this text from my husband, “I think the kids have hidden a hotdog in the house, but I can’t find it”
— mom mom mom mom mom (@notmythirdrodeo) February 9, 2023
#4
What wine pairs well with going to my kid’s recorder concert
— meghan (@deloisivete) April 30, 2025
#5
Told the kids they could have a dime for each toy they decided to part with.
— Courtney Ellis 🎈 (@courtneyellis) May 31, 2023
Oldest kid has earned $3.00 and middle kid is counting individual Legos crowing, “I’M GONNA BE RICH!”
#6
A 5th grader at my daughter’s school is making his own animated series and hiring kids to do voices for it and holding Zoom auditions and my daughter missed her audition and was freaking out like "I really need this job!!!" and emailed the kid to reschedule and I am RIVETED
— SpacedMom (@copymama) March 10, 2023
#7
No one’s ever more confident than my teen daughter telling me how to do something she’s never done
— McDad (@mcdadstuff) March 6, 2023
#8
My kids are fighting about who the cat likes more. We don’t even have a cat
— meghan (@deloisivete) March 20, 2023
#9
At some point you’ll think you have this parenting thing figured out. Then your child will ask you to take the cheese off of their macaroni.
— kidversations (@kidversations_) February 1, 2023
#10
In case anyone is wondering whether or not to have a child: My son noticed it’s raining, sighed and said “Maybe today we could just watch the baking show and eat a lot of different crackers.”
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) March 25, 2023
#11
Number of times I’ve cooked Mac and cheese: 1000
— Vinod Chhaproo (@Chhapiness) April 21, 2023
Number of times I’ve thrown the box and then picked it up from trash to read the instructions: 1024
#12
My daughter just now during dinner: "YOU WERE ALIVE IN THE 80s?!"
— Meena Harris (@meena) January 10, 2023
#13
Parenting is basically just punctuating every conversation with various commands:
— SpacedMom (@copymama) February 1, 2020
“Yes, I like your picture. Put on your shoes.”
“My favorite color is yellow. Finish your breakfast.”
“No, fish don’t snore. Go brush your teeth.”
#14
Trying to get 3-year-old ready for school on time but she is insisting that the only thing she’ll eat for lunch is “the biggest pie you’ve ever seen”
— Kristen Mulrooney (@missmulrooney) January 18, 2023
#15
Saw an Amazon truck drop a kid off at school this morning. Didn't know that was an option.
— Henpecked Hal (@HenpeckedHal) October 11, 2023
#16
My kid is supposed to be in a wedding this weekend, so he's cut off a chunk of his own hair right on schedule
— meghan (@deloisivete) December 7, 2022
#17
We have now been a cereal in clear containers family for over a month and it really does feel nice to be better than everyone.
— Simon Holland (@simoncholland) October 29, 2022
#18
My kids and I play this fun game where I wake up early to enjoy a coffee alone and they wake up earlier to make sure that I don’t
— I Hide From My Kids (@IHideFromMyKids) November 2, 2022
#19
My 5yo said she couldn't eat her bacon because syrup got on it. She was very upset, so I had to go into superhero mode. I took one for the team and bit off the piece of bacon that had syrup. My unconditional love for my child saved the day.
— Marcy G (@BunAndLeggings) January 28, 2023
#20
My kids keep leaving their freaky realistic doll in weird places like this and I don't want to work from home anymore pic.twitter.com/GBtbdCSlu3
— Lil Bit 🌈 (@LizerReal) February 3, 2023
