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Here's an interesting bit of historical trivia: George Washington helped raise step-children from wife Martha Washington's previous marriage, but the two never had biological children since George was likely left sterile after a bout of smallpox. Of course, we're pretty sure George was incredibly sad about this too, but these memes paint him as absent and Martha as baby-crazy. Despite their historical inaccuracy, we found them hilarious, and we're pretty sure you will too. 

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It's almost the weekend, what better way to celebrate than by reminding ourselves not to kill our inner children? We can get so sucked into our jobs, what society expects, and the general grind. It's important to remember to live and laugh a little.

Parenting is a lot of things, but it sure as hell ain't glamorous. These texts manage to capture the laughs, the exhaustion, and the poopy truths of raising children. We just hope they don't trigger you too much.

Parenting ain't easy. Between the oppressive costs of healthcare and childcare, and the effect that raising kids has on one's sanity, sometimes it feels like a losing game. And then your kid does something magical, cute, or hilarious, and it all seems worth it. These highs and lows are all well-represented in this highly relatable batch of memes for every kind of parent.

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!

To all the parents out there: we get you. You're tired and you just need a little salvation. We've got some memes that'll help you feel understood, at least for a few minutes. So tell your spouse to watch the kiddos for a few minutes and go get some much-deserved peace and quiet, dammit.

Sick of all the cheesy Christmas cheer and looking for something a little more humorous and sinister? Look no further than this gallery of creepy Santa pics straight from the gutter. Krampus would be proud.

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.