10 Funny Truths About Parenting

“Your shirt is not a mechanism for storing snacks,” I said to my two-year-old after he tried to shove food down his shirt. Better than throwing it, I suppose, but not exactly what we were going for.

There are a lot of funny moments in parenting, but very few of them are substantial stories worthy of a blog post. For at least some of them, I’ve made them into memes that I share on the blog’s Facebook page. As I’ve never shared them here, I thought it would be fun to gather a number of them together in one place.

Stairs: Bringing Joy to Toddlers and Striking Fear into the Hearts of Parents Everywhere (Photo in background: Steep wooden stairs)

Damn stairs.

 

Co-Sleeping in Our House: There were three in the bed and the little one said... (Photo: Dark room with a window)

Thank goodness he doesn’t always sleep with us. Because lately……ugh.

 

When your kid's story has more endings than the Lord of the Rings. (Photo: Samwise Gamgee from Lord of the Rings sounding exhausted)

Seriously, I thought you were done three endings ago?

 

Only the mom of a preschoolers would have to argue about the eating preferences of a stuffed rabbit. (Photo: Stuffed white rabbit)

He claimed she needed lettuce outside of his room. I pointed out the “garden” near his bookshelf.

 

You know you're a mom when you bring your lunch to work in a monkey lunchbox. (Photo: A children's lunchbox that looks like a monkey)

I don’t think my co-workers noticed….

Hell is being in a bathroom with two kids, one of whom is taking 20 minutes to poop and the other who is touching everything. (Photo: Typical bathroom in a restaurant)

True story.

 

You know you're raising a wild child when he's proud of the rock he stuffed in his onsie for safekeeping. (Photo: Small child with a floppy hat sitting in red sand)

And then he pretended to put it in his diaper. Uh, no.

 

You know you're a mom when... Your nativity includes Cookie Monster. (Photo: Fisher Price nativity with a toy of Cookie Monster in a car as part of it)

At least they weren’t doing anything really weird. Just wait until my kids are teenagers.

 

Parenting: Opening the microwave to heat up a cup of coffee, only to find your last cup in there. (Photo: Red mug in microwave)

Double if it’s the second time in one day this has happened.

 

Organic? Free-range? Fair trade? Nope. My baby's favorite food is whatever's on our floor. (Photo: Wooden floor with cheerios on it)

Thank goodness he’s grown out of this. Now he brings food on the floor to us, like he’s trying to shame me.

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