Tiny terrors. Maniacal minions. Kids, while sometimes a total blessing, give us all a run for our money and make insane asylums seem like a sexy vacation. At their worst, their meltdowns can bring us to tears. At their best, they melt our hearts. If we're lucky, they make us laugh with their histrionic tendencies, creative threats, and inventive spelling. This gallery of snot-nosed gold includes all of the above - and might help you laugh away the pain of being a parent.
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As a kid, your underdeveloped brain can often cause you to not fully grasp things for what they are. For example, a creepy-looking character in a TV show will seem a lot scarier when you don't realize that it doesn't actually exist in real life.
These people took to Twitter to show their selfies next to an image of the things that scared them the most as kids!
Garfield was definitely onto something. Mondays seriously suck. To combat the malaise, the pain, the sheer agony of everyone's least favorite day, we've put together this assortment of replies to a Twitter thread about what gives people hope. It's important to remind yourself that life isn't actually hopeless - not even on Mondays!
These memes are for the tired. The haggard. The hungry, and the overworked. The parents who might smell like spit-up, and the parents who wake up with goldfish crumbs in weird crevices. These memes are for anyone who's had to say no to a cranky kid, and for anyone raising a picky eater. We salute you, and hope these memes make you feel seen.
There are those times when you feel so frustrated talking to someone that you just want to lash out and not give them any more of your time. This story, however, demonstrates that sometimes kindness and patience is the only way to convince them of your point of view.
For this mother of a transgender child, it's clear that all she needed was to be put in her child's shoes. Now, who's cutting onions in here?
If there's one thing kids have no lack of, it's imagination. Hell, they create entire languages with one another. So when @Jon_Bois asked his Twitter followers to share "the most outrageous lie another kid ever told you when you were a kid," the results, while incredibly entertaining, were hardly surprising to us. Of course a kid would tell his friends he spent his absent days fighting Shredder of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame. And of course people believed him. Imaginative and gullible kids are truly a blessing to the the world. And here's a crap load of their amusing lies in one convenient place.
Kids really say (and believe) the darndest things. As a gullible kid, a friend once told me that she and her father were addicted to shawarma. She said there was nicotine in the meat and that the two of them absolutely had to get their fix daily or they'd become cranky jerks. I believed this for at least a year until my own family took me for some tasty sandwiches.
While some AskReddit threads can feature dark and unsettling tales from peoples' pasts, this one has proved to be some seriously wholesome respite from our case of the Mondays. And is a pleasant reminder that nobody is alone in believing some seriously weird (or seriously funny) tidbits or ideas.
Anyone with kids will understand these parenting memes on a deep, spiritual level. We get you - raising offspring has to be one of the hardest jobs in the world and you get virtually no gratitude for it.
Is it all worth it? We have no idea, we were hoping you would...
It may technically be the beginning of the week, but dear lord does it feel like we've been doing the 9-5 thing for an eternity. To help combat your Terrible Tuesday woes, we've put together this mix of triggeringly relatable memes and shitposts. It's said that laughter is the best medicine, and while these memes may not elicit a guffaw, they could inspire a light chuckle.
