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Summer has a habit of sneaking up on us, and Summer 2019 has definitely done exactly that. With these summer memes, we welcome the hot weather, mosquitoes, pool parties, and even that winter weight we barely tried to shed. 

Did anyone else watch The Fairly Oddparents growing up? If not, it was another one of Nickelodeon's clever masterpieces riddled with adult jokes that, as kids, we just didn't fully understand - similarly to Spongebob. Now as we look back on the show as adults, we can laugh at all of the moments we missed!

Holy mother of cringe stories, Batman. 

"Alternative parenting" can be a good thing to an extent; the child can get a sense of freedom while building up trust between them and the parents. But sometimes that tactic goes waaaay overboard, as is exemplified by this lady, who wanted an outdoor bedroom for her unvaccinated two-year-old. Sometimes kids just need to be parented, dammit!

Over the past week Twitter has been blowing up with a very specific meme, one featuring one photo of a crying woman, and another of Ms. Juicy from Little Women: Atlanta staring blankly, looking thoroughly unimpressed. While completely unrelated, the photos are being used to illustrate the experience of explaining something passionately to your very uninterested (or unwavering) mother, or in some cases, a pet. We're just upset that we had to relive the experience of begging for stuff from the Scholastic book fair. 

If you're already a parent then you'll know very well that it's just a fact of life that kids will have total meltdowns over the dumbest crap. They're just kids after all - their brains aren't developed enough to fully articulate what it is they want, or to understand why certain things are the way they are. Just remember that if you're someone who's thinking about having kids, you'll have to deal with this on the reg!

Click here for more hilarious pics of kids freaking out over totally mundane things!

Some people say that motherhood/fatherhood are the greatest gifts of all time. Parents know that it's not so simple. Some of the joys include sleepless nights, a layer of crumbs on every surface, and the notion that maybe solitary confinement wouldn't be so bad after all. Of course, there are ups with the downs, but these memes are for the parents that reject sugarcoating parenthood and just want to laugh the pain away.

Starting a family can be a wonderful thing for a lot of people - kids can bring you a type of love that you've never known before. However, parenting does inevitably come with its fair share of struggles that aren't widely publicized, and we think these memes and posts shine some light on that!

We've all been fooled by someone else's bullsh*t at one point or another - and we're kind of ashamed to say that some of us get fooled regularly as adults too. But even so, we can rest assured that we're not one of these Twitter users who believed some pretty outrageous things!

For many, parenting is the most rewarding job in the world, but that doesn't mean it doesn't come with its fair share of struggles. Often times, you're kind of at the beck and call of your kid's weird moods and temper tantrums. Many of us just don't have the patience (or selflessness) for that, so our hats are off to you!

Following Snapchat's gender-swapping app craze, people are now obsessed with the "baby filter" which transforms one into a baby-version of themselves. The results have been creepily realistic-looking, which makes us wonder WTF kind of voodoo magic those developers at Snapchat are using.

And if you haven't seen 'em yet, be sure to check out our Game of Thrones gender swaps!

Toddlers really don't get enough credit for how terrible they are. They scream in public places, they're old enough to talk back to you, and they have meltdowns over the most mundane things. That age group is called the "terrible twos" for a reason after all, as any parent can attest to. 

To any toddler-parent who's reading this, all we can say is, you got this. And if you don't got this, there's always adoption.