When you're a parent, your life is filled with love, cuddles, and stolen moments alone with a wine bottle and Twitter account.
So before the moment passes, enjoy these 40 hilarious tweets from parents who just need a MOMENT of peace:
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My wife’s grocery list has wine listed twice, in case you’re wondering if kids are home for summer break yet.
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Listening to my daughters talk through a disagreement. 4-year-old: I really wanted to watch Bluey and that’s why I screamed. 2-year-old: I really really wanted to watch Elmo and that’s why I slapped you in your own face.
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3yo had a tantrum today. I got on her level, let her have her big emotions, talked her through it and and had a cuddle. If you’d like my new parenting book “How I succeeded once, felt smug and then got confused when the same thing didn’t work twice” it’s out Monday
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parenting classes should focus less on diapers and more on what to do when you’re sad but still have to pretend to be a tugboat
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I got my kid a book called How to Beat Your Dad at Chess and he just beat me at chess which I had somehow failed to anticipate
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taking after her older brother my daughter has decided to try and call me bro…my parenting journey keeps taking such interesting turns
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I found my 6-year-old with a shot glass. I asked what she was using it for. She said Mountain Dew. It would have been safer if she said vodka.
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Seems suspicious that the things that make parenting easier like TV are “bad” and the things that are “good”, like sensory bins, cover your house in 1000 dried beans.
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My son, 7, has discovered “deez nuts” jokes and it’s all he says now. Everything is deez nuts. He simply can’t stop. I asked him where he heard that joke. He made me promise that if he told me, he wouldn’t get in trouble. I agreed. So he leans in and whispers, “deez nuts.”
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What's the parenting fantasy you abandoned most swiftly and completely? Mine is definitely "My kids will eat whatever we're eating!"
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Parenting is a conspiracy to keep alcohol companies in business
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Every year my daughter thought adults had summer break. She told me last “Well I don’t wanna be an adult then“ SAME SIS..Just call me Peter Pan 😭 https://t.co/iEV7debmwO
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I told my 6-year-old how happy I was to try out my new vacuum cleaner, and she looked visibly sad for me.
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Just when you think you have this parenting thing figured out, your kid picks up a Dorito chip off the floor with their toes and eats it.
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Having been around babies and toddlers for many years now I can tell you what they really want, what makes their eyes sparkle and what they reach for more than anything. It’s knives. Follow me for more hot parenting tips
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The final countdown, but it’s the amount of time between when your kid sneezes in your face and you get sick
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97% of parenting is just saying "oh wow" to your kid when they do something totally not wow.
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doing everything in my power to steer my 5yo away from buying "ball gag teddy bear" over here
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My rating system for kids birthday parties: Beer for parents: 5 stars No beer for parents: 0 stars
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[looks out the window to see my 8y/o peeing on my tomato plants] Honey, your mom likes tomatoes, right?
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Today my 7 year-old came into the room crying. I asked him what happened and he said that his 5 year-old brother put 80 cows in his house in Minecraft while he was offline and that it was "entirely too many cows" and honest to christ I have no idea how to parent any of this.
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I’d like to think my children have so much more to learn from me but my son asked me how big the sun is and I replied with “big” so chances are I’ve already taught them everything I know.
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95% of parenting is just listening to yourself talk because your kids sure as hell aren't listening
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Watching a movie with a kid is like watching with the director’s commentary on and it doesn't turn off. Ever.
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Normalize having a bad day so you let your toddler watch TV all afternoon so you can go on your phone and eat the rest of his muffin.
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10-year-old: *fights with her sister over what to watch* Me: Go watch the other TV. 10: Someone's watching it. Me: Then go watch the other other TV. 10: I don't want to walk that far.
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I just told my daughter that when I was a kid our tv only had 4 channels and she rolled her eyes and said, “oK, mOm. wHaTeVeR,” and now I’m starting to wonder if maybe my father DID walk to school uphill both ways.
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I’m eating the potato off my 3yr old’s French Fries because he doesn’t like potato, in case you wondered if parenting was right for you
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6-year-old asked how many swear words there are. I asked how many he knows and he said "4" so I said "There are 5." ?? I don't know what I'm doing.
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if you have a kid who showers on their own, you have to remind them to use soap and shampoo every so often otherwise they forget those products exist i learned this the hard way after my son asked me what the soap looked like
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Parenthood is seeing how many times you can say "let me think about it" with the hope that your kid forgets to ask again
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I wore red lipstick today and my 4 year old, while wearing his underpants inside out, boldly informed me that I look like the Joker
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My son told his teacher that 'mom is alone at the office with Takeshi' and the teacher, well aware that my husband's name isn't Takeshi, quietly asked what's going on. So I had to introduce Takeshii (pictured), which was no less embarassing than her thinking I'm having an affair
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The best parenting tool is fruit snacks, those are little bags of shut the heck up.
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Oh, you ran a 5K today? Cool. I buckled a toddler into a car seat twice today, so we both burned the same amount of calories.
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Times goes so fast. It seems like only yesterday my kid’s laundry pile was only this big. Wait, it was only yesterday. WTF.
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Bought my 10 y/o daughter a camera for vacation and while taking a family photo, she told me, “please get out of my picture, your outfit is clashing today.” The art world is harsh.
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My 2yo just asked my husband for a sip of his water and then immediately spit it out and said “this isn’t sparkling water”.
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Parenting a six year old is trying to give bedtime instructions while she interjects with all the things she knows about pangolins (which is a lot, incidentally).
40. But here's a secret: These tweets are all one massive parental ploy to seem cool and distant in front of their kids.
Please don’t tell my 13 year old I said this but she is very fun and one of my favorite people to hang out with
Sorry to spill the beans!
Whether you laughed in pity or solidarity (or a funky little mix of the two), be sure to follow these stupendously funny parents on Twitter!!!
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