6: why does J have two mommies?
Me: some kids have two mommies, some have two daddies, some have a mommy and a daddy… all families look diff-
6: I wish I had two mommies
My husband:
My 7yo was diagnosed with ADHD recently. It wasn’t a huge shock because she’s always complained her brain has “too many ideas” that distract her. But today, after meeting with a doctor to discuss medication, she told me she was scared taking it would make her forget her ideas.
My father in law came over and asked 2 for a kiss and when she said “no” he said “gonna take one anyway” and my husband stopped him and explained that we’re working hard to teach her that her “no” has power and deserves respect and I’m not crying YOU’RE crying
Just heard the mom of a newborn tell her crying baby “it’s ok, we’re figuring it out... we’re just on day 8” and honestly I’m on day 3,654 and I’m still figuring it out.
I know this may sound crazy but when a mother complains about her kids, or motherhood in general, she is not saying she hates her kids or hates being a mother. She doesn’t need to be told to enjoy every minute. And she certainly doesn’t need to be shamed for complaining.
I’m wearing a shirt with ‘96 on the front cause it’s the year I graduated HS and a teacher at my 3yo’s school stopped me to say “omg I wasn’t even born then!” and long story short I need bail money.
I just had to text a mom I’ve never even met to ask if her daughter is available for a play date. Our kids have no idea the hardships we endure for them.
Just overheard my daughter say to her doll, “no we can’t go get icecream cause all the people are sick” so if my 3yo gets what we’re doing here, there’s really no excuse for anyone else.
My 5yo asked if she could have a brownie and I started to say no cause it was too close to dinner and she said, “please your highness”. So I asked her where that came from and she said matter of factly, “cause you’re my Queen.” So anyway, she’s now having brownies for dinner.
To those that say we should stop complaining about our kids: Parenting is hard. Really fucking hard. And being snarky or sarcastic helps us cope with the craziness of it all. Doesn’t mean we don’t love our kids. But if you prefer “life is great” type posts, go check out fb...
I know this may sound crazy but hear me out: when a mother complains about her kids, or motherhood in general, it does not in any way shape or form imply that she hates her kids or that she hates being a mother. So kindly fuck off with that shit.
I walked by a mom and a kid standing in front of a pizza place and overheard her say “fuck it, let’s have pizza” and I don’t want to bore you with the details but she’s now my life coach.
When a mom complains about her kids, or motherhood in general, she’s looking to be heard. She’s looking for someone to say, “I get it”. She doesn’t need to be lectured about enjoying every minute. And she shouldn’t be shamed for complaining.
5 told me she can’t help me clean up her toys because she’s tired from all the work she does in kindergarten. When I asked her what she meant by work, she said “ugh they’re always making us write our names”.
Parenting is just like waitressing only you get the same customers for every meal and they’re the shitty kind that demand ridiculous things and then never tip.
You finally get a job you’ve been wanting forever and everyone you know who’s had it raves about it and so you’re really psyched to get the job and then it turns out to be all consuming and spirit crushing and you wonder why no one warned you it was THIS hard?! That’s parenting.
Parenting, where one minute you’re ready to scream your head off at one of your kids and the very next minute you’re crying at pictures from when they were younger.
My son just got braces and his mouth hurts too much for solid food so I made him a milkshake but he didn’t want it and then my husband said he’d drink it but then he didn’t end up wanting it either. So no, sadly my milkshake does NOT bring any boys to the yard.
Sure, sex ed is an important class but if you want teens to fully grasp the consequences of sex, have them spend a few min with a toddler. My 3yo just cried for a solid 20 min cuz I wouldn’t “take the hair off” my head. If that doesn’t convince teens to use condoms, nothing will.
I told my mom I’ve been exercising 2-3 times a week which is a lot for me but instead of acknowledging this small miracle she said I should exercise every day if I want to lose weight faster and it’s good cause I was running out of stuff to talk about in therapy.
My 3yo, who demands I stay in her room until she falls asleep, just said “ok, you can leave...” and when I said, “wait, what?!” she said, “goodniiiight” so I left and now I’m just standing outside her door trying to process what just happened.
My sister just told me she can’t babysit my 3yo tomorrow morning cause 9am on a weekend is too early for her and I just said okay and changed the subject instead of getting annoyed at her and now I’m drunk on my powers of self-restraint.
My husband and I have different parenting styles - he thinks I should be less hands on to help the kids be more independent and I think he should remember to offer them food/water when I’m not around.
I told my 4yo she was the best daughter in the whole wide world and she said “you’re the best girl that has teeth in her mouth in the whole wide world” so at least I have that going for me.
*tweets something annoying about 3*
Sympathetic Twitter: mine does the same
Competitive Twitter: mine does that and more
Invalidating Twitter: that’s nothing, wait til they get older!
Empty Nest Twitter: cherish the moment it goes fast
Asshole Twitter: be grateful you bitch
10 is trying to negotiate a later bedtime and just told me he thinks we treat him unfairly because we make him “sleep too much” and I just wish someone would treat *me* that unfairly.
I showed my 11yo son President Biden’s 1st tweet as POTUS where he stated “there is no time to waste” and my darling son, making me a very proud parent, said “he’s starting work already?! I’d probably take a nap first and start the next day”.
Will she change her mind about wanting it peeled? Will she ask for it to be sliced and then freak out cause she didn’t realize sliced meant not whole? Will she lose her shit about a completely different reason? The suspense is killing me!
- me, giving my 3yo a banana
4: remember when mommy didn’t have her strap on?
Husband: she didn’t have her WHAT?!
4: her strap on!
Husband: I didn’t even know mommy had a-
Me, from another room: SHE MEANS WHEN I WORE THE STRAPLESS DRESS AT OUR WEDDING
3 is spilling her milk and telling her dolls they’re gorgeous and that she loves their hairstyle and I’m getting a strong drunk girl in a bar bathroom vibe from her.
I’m just saying it’s really rude that we need to eat food to stay alive and that that same food we need to stay alive makes us gain weight and as if that wasn’t bad enough, we have to put actual effort into losing the weight we gain by eating the food that we need to stay alive.
At my daughter’s 4-year checkup, the doctor said she should be eating a varied diet and to make sure she’s eating a good amount from each food group and I think she said a bit about trying new foods but not sure cause I got distracted wondering if she’d ever actually met a 4yo.
In the middle of one of his zoom classes, my 12yo put his headphones down and said, “I spaced out for a minute and now we’re listening to Frozen and I don’t know why” and I laughed so hard it almost made up for all the shitty moments over the last year.
My 4yo begged me to make her a banana mango smoothie and then took three sips and said she was done so now I’m drinking it with rum cause when life gives you lemons, ya know?
🎶 fuck my life doo doo doo doo doo doo
fuck my life doo doo doo doo doo doo 🎶
- Me, singing as I tape 28 lollipops to 28 cards and then stuff them into 28 envelopes at 11pm
If you’re sitting next to your kid during zoom school it is absolutely imperative that you check, and then double check, whether he’s on mute before making a snarky comment. Please learn from my mistakes.
My 10yo showed me a Fortnite dance he really liked and when I started saying it looked familiar, he interrupted me to say it was from a movie that came out a super loooong time ago.
Napoleon Dynamite. He was talking about Napoleon Dynamite.
My 4yo was very difficult this weekend and I yelled more than I should have but tonight right before bed she hugged me and said “best friends forever!” and just like that she managed to erase all the bad moments and this kind of witchcraft is exactly why 4yos are so scary.
My 5yo didn’t wanna get in the bath last night so I told her it was filled with birthday water and this was her only chance to experience it until her next bday and I’ve never seen her get in the bath faster. Now if you don’t mind, I’m gonna ride this parenting high for a bit.
My 10yo just sat on my lap, which he hasn’t done in forever, and so I leaned in and it seemed like he was about to let me cuddle him and my heart started getting all happy and then he said “I just farted on you” and jumped out of my lap and this, THIS is why I have trust issues.
You know when you have a million things to do and you’ve been waiting 12 days to do them without the kids bothering you and yet when you finally get your chance you’re too overwhelmed with all the things and end up doing nothing instead? That’s where I’m at right now.
Me: ok, 5 more min of Minecraft and then we’re going outside
10: outside?! whyyyy
Me: cause it’s important to do things other than Xbox and YouTube
10: ughh I don’t know if you know this mom, but kids don’t go outside as much now, this isn’t the 1900’s like when you were born
All I’m saying is that if I had someone feeding me when I got hungry and carrying me when I got tired, I’d probably try to be a little less of an asshole. But maybe that’s just me.
I really really want to try to understand how THIS many people could look at everything he’s done and said over the last four years and STILL go, “4 more years please!”
Me: *annoyed that 3yo never wants to get in the bath and then never wants to get out of bath*
Also me: *procrastinates getting in the shower because comfy and lazy and then doesn’t want to get out of the shower because comfy and lazy*
I love when people are like oh you’ve got a restless 3yo cooped up at home hmmm you should make a schedule and look into resources to engage her
So here’s what I have:
Schedule - whatever the fuck she wants whenever the fuck she wants it cause survival
Resources - fuck off
I don’t usually like pretend play but today my 5yo had me pretend to be a baby and all I had to do was lie on the couch and cry and not to brag but I played the shit out of that.
If I see a booger in my toddler’s nose I have to pick it and she hates it and screams and then my husband gets annoyed cause I can’t leave well enough alone and I know I need to stop you guys but I can’t and I mean is there a support group for this
12 is trying to negotiate a later bedtime and says we treat him unfairly because we make him “sleep too much” and I just think it’s unfair that no one’s ever treated ME that unfairly
Someone once told me I can’t say I hate camping if I’ve never been camping but I’ve never been stabbed in the eye and I can say with 100% certainty I would hate it so how’s this any different
*dreads doing a new thing*
*finally does said thing*
*admits thing wasn’t as bad as expected and regrets stressing about it*
*repeats process every time there’s a new thing*
My 11yo son, who complains about literally everything he’s asked to do, just told me he wouldn’t mind wearing a mask to school cause “what’s the big deal?”
To the people who tell parents of young kids to enjoy the moment: it’s not easy to enjoy the moment when the moment involves tantrums and attitude and stress. And telling us to enjoy something that is hard to enjoy makes us feel shittier than we’re already feeling so just don’t.
Them: oh you’re having trouble with potty training? You have to do a behavior chart. You’ll see! It’ll change your life.
Me: *creates and introduces chart to 3yo*
3yo: fuck your charts
After bath, 3 asked for a roll, salami and cheese and I started getting impatient cuz it was close to bedtime but I reluctantly gave in and she proceeded to pile it all inside the roll and said, “this sandwich is for you mommy!” and now I’m crying (while eating said sandwich).
I just opened a water bottle and spilled it on myself while trying to take a swig and then choked on the few drops I was able to take in which of course then led me to pee a little so let me know if you’re looking for a new sex symbol.
Everyone’s worried about a potential microchip in the vaccine, but I’m not. I just hope the government knows what it’s in for cuz I can get pretty wild. I mean, watching me do laundry, overeat pasta, and read llama llama red pajama 36 times in a row is not for the faint of heart.