Parents Who Are Honestly So Over Having Kids Right Now

Parenting is one of the most rewarding jobs in the world, and you truly would do anything for your kids, but somedays, even just for a moment, you really start to think that creating little humans was not the right choice.

These are all parents who, for at least a second, were so over having kids.

This Is Kind Of Brilliant

photo album features pictures of children and then a picture of a mushroom
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This girl explained that her parents used to tell her and her brother that they had another brother before, but, because he refused to take a bath, he turned into a mushroom. What a great way to make your kids compliant for bathtime.

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Hope They Take It Well!

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tweet: my husband and I decided we don't want to have children. We will be telling them tonight.
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I'm just saying: how nice would it be if you got to take being a parent for a quick little test run before committing to an 18-year subscription to raising a person?

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Teachers Are So Brave

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writing on car window:
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I have to give it to teachers: not only do they deal with our little monsters on a daily basis, but they also manage another 25 monsters at the same time. They deserve more credit.

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It's The Lack Of Logic For Me

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Obviously, as a parent, you are tasked with protecting your kids from things that could cause them potential harm, and how do they repay you? Throwing a tantrum about not being able to drink bleach.

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Invent A Time Machine, Kiddo

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My eldest child was born 5 years after we got married and yet she's mad at us for not inviting her to the wedding. We will be focusing on math lessons this week
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This kid wanted to be unreasonable, so naturally, this mom decided that tasking her with the most reasonable subject, math, would be an apt countermove. Good luck with long division!

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Glad The Whole School Can Read It!

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yearbook text reads: ever since you were born, it's almost been like you've been a son to us. It seem like yesterday we brought you home form the hospital. At least now you're house broken and can eat solid foods. As you've grown older, your fascination with puns has grown and our love for you has dwindled. Although you may not be number one, you are at least in our top four children. Love mom and dad
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For his senior yearbook, this guy asked his parents to write a dedication to him like all the other parents do. His mom left the task to the dad, who wrote this.

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Take The Kids Through Hell And Back

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This boy explained that his parents promised to take him out somewhere unique for his birthday, and they ended up driving him here. His parents literally told him to go to hell.

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I Am Not In The Right Headspace For This

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tweet: sleep deprived and doubled over on the counter desperate for the coffee to brew faster when I hear that sweet voice utter those dreaded words:
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Of course, you want to encourage your child to have a curious mind and a passion for learning, but why do they have to have a curious mind at seven in the morning?

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Their Kid Didn't Make The Cut

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sign on front lawn reads: due to coronavirus, we are self-isolating. No one my enter except: ryan reynolds, kim quintero, thor, or those firefighter guys holding pupper who are in that calendar
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The person who posted this photo explained that they saw this sign on their parents' lawn when they came home. Their parents wouldn't let them into the house because they "weren't on the list."

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Life Hack For Children's Sports!

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Beer before liquor, never been sicker, wine before soccer, ok this is actually somewhat tolerable.
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Listen, I love my kid, but they are not all that great at soccer, and I shouldn't be forced to watch a game a week of below-par athleticism while completely sober.

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Have Fun At College!

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As a going-away present before this guy left for college, his parents gifted him all the money they found in his pockets while doing laundry over the years, totalling $415.

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I'm Scared Of Her

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Tweet: My daughter just told me that my singing sounds like
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My question is: is she simply making things up, or did this little girl find a way to steal and smuggle a cat into the home, watch it die while in her care, and then dispose of the body without anyone noticing?

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They Really Just Roasted Him To The Public

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sign on front lawn says
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It's already hard enough to drop out of school and face the scrutiny of your peers, family, and close friends, but now the whole neighborhood is going to mock Owen.

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Kid, I Don't Know What To Tell You

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Tweet: The parenting books didn't warn me that one day my 4 year old would ask me for, and I quote
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Picture this: you pore over every piece of parenting research you can find while expecting. You even play Mozart for the baby in the womb. Then, after years of learning as many answers as possible, your kid has the audacity to ask you this.

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This Father Is Not Pleased

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bar of soap with
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Parenting is a hard job with little to no thanks, and then your child—who you care for tirelessly, pay to keep alive and happy, and have lost countless nights of sleep over—has the audacity to do this.

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Haha, Why Did We Do This Again?

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Tweet: Let's get married & have kids so instead of trying a pumpkin beer you can stop the crying while I go back into the corn maze to find the shoe.
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Imagine if you never had kids: you could plan vacations to relax rather than going to Disney World, and you could enjoy nights out with your friends. Instead, you're managing two small idiots.

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Welcome To The Real World

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Tweet: Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.
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As a parent, you constantly give and give and give—well, this is me giving you permission to take a little back. Enact an ice cream tax. Make them give you 1/3 of their Halloween candy.

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Keep The Kid Preoccupied At All Costs

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little boy painting the fence with water
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This mom was trying to get through some much-needed yard work when her son wouldn't stop "helping" and slowing her down. Exhausted, she just tasked him with painting the fence with water so she could have some peace.

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Okay, A Whole Mood

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Tweet: My toddler just threw herself on the floor and started crying, and I'm like,
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One thing that I can respect about small children is the way that they unabashedly will just start screaming uncontrollably when life isn't going the way they want. I wish I could do the same.

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Classic Parenting Necessities

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bottle of Jim Bean bourbon amongst soothers and other baby items in store
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Some things you will need as a parent: diapers, baby bottles, soothers, a change of clothes, a college fund, a whole lot of patience, and a bottle of strong bourbon to get you through it all.

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Is Zoom Parenting An Option?

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Tweet: Ok so I'm jealous that teachers have the power to mute my kids
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Truly, can you imagine how much nicer it would be if you could just hold a television remote up to your kids and hit the "decrease volume" button whenever you felt like it?

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Kids Have No Respect For The Cost Of Healthcare

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x-ray of abdomen shows two foreign objects—a coin and key—inside body
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This kid, while trying to demonstrate to his younger brother how he managed to swallow a simm key the day before, proceeded to also swallow a coin. Now he has two foreign objects lodged in his body.

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Classic Place To Keep The Remote

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remote seen through hole in ukulele
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This mom was frantically running around the house searching for the remote for the Nintendo Switch only to realize that her kid had, for no clear reason, put it into his ukulele.

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She Knows Not What She's Done

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Tweet: my wife just grounded all kids from electronics and tv for 4 days and if you need me i'll be living anywhere else but here.
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What kids don't realize is that, when you give them a punishment that takes away their TV time, you are also going to feel the punishment as well. No one wins here.

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How Do You Even...?

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kid crying while half his body is stuck in a vent
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Imagine that you're a parent trying to get the kids settled down for the night. Everyone is already bathed and in their PJs when, suddenly, you enter a room to see your kid trapped in the vent.

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Can I Buy A Vowel?

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in response to wheel of fortune puzzle, dad says its
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Honestly, it fits with the puzzle. I think that this dad deserves to win the final prize of Wheel Of Fortune for thinking outside of the box. I can't even imagine what the real answer is.

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It's Too Early For This

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Tweet: My toddler woke up upset because he couldn't find his glasses, but what really set him off was when I told him he doesn't even wear glasses.
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It's one thing to have to calm your toddler down from a problem that makes sense, but how are you supposed to console a kid over the loss of a pair of glasses he never even owned?

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Thanks For The Heads-Up!

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Tweet: My favorite part of getting a child ready for school is when she says,
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First of all, I would like to blame schools for ever thinking that "spirit weeks" were a good idea in the first place. Second of all, how is he supposed to make a tree outfit in 20 minutes?

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Don't Make Bets You Can't Keep

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photo of little girl with small lego tower crying next to significantly larger lego tower
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This little girl really got herself into a competition that she had no business competing in and decided to have a meltdown. Props to this parent for not going easy on her.

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What Are You Even Supposed To Do...?

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things my three-year-old cried about today: my hands did not make a sound like a bridge when he rolled his toy car across them. he couldn't keep the sleeves on by take the jacket off. the dog refused to eat the handful of sand it was given
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Like, I'm sorry buddy, but Dad's hands aren't made out of wood, you can't have sleeves without the jacket they're attached to, and the dog deserves better than to eat dirt.

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Leave The Kid Unattended For A Couple Minutes And This Happens

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child crying with head stuck in 0 of sign in store
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This child's parents were out at the phone store trying to figure out a new plan and phone deal for themselves only to turn around and see their kid with his head stuck through a sign.

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Not Newsworthy, Kiddo

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my mom just decided to remind me that when i was 8 and my goldfish died, I asked if the fish would be on the news because it died
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First of all, did this kid think that every single person who ever dies gets a little shoutout on the local news? Second of all, how important did he think his goldfish was?

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Why, Though?

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soap bar with a bite taken out of it
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This parent was shocked and dismayed to walk into the bathroom and see that one of their kids had taken it upon themselves to bite into the bar of soap.

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Um, 27?

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headline: Indiana boy rushed to hospital after swallowing 27 magnets:
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Okay, sure: I definitely think that it's not too far off the norm for a kid to try swallowing one or two magnets, but 27? Was he gulping them down by the handful?

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I'm Sorry, But You're Not

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child writes
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This dad was going through his son's homework notebook when he came across this page and had to finally face the fact that his son is, in fact, an idiot.

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Thanks, But No Thanks

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my kids realized that I was missing Glastonbury this year so they put on a music festival for us in the garden. It was, and I cannot stress this enough, awful
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Glastonbury is an annual festival for the contemporary arts in England that this dad loved to attend, but instead, he got tortured by the musical stylings of his children for hours.

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Interesting Costume Choice

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I just want everyone to know that my two year old insisted on being pants for halloween (photo of child wearing jeans up to shoulders with arm holes on sides)
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Most parents are lucky enough to have their kids want to dress up as easily accessible costumes—Iron Man, Elsa from Frozen, a dog—but this kid had to think outside of the box.

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Captain Ravioli Is So Random

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one time when i was like 11 my dad took me to an italian restaurant and the waiter asked what my name was and I said
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Kids really will be out here saying the most random and embarrassing things in public without any prompting or warning. You're just out here feeling bad for the server who has no idea what's going on.

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Glad That Toilet Paper Is So Hard To Find Now...

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multiple rolls of toilet paper in bathwater
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Within the first few weeks of the pandemic, this mom was preparing her son for bed with a bath only to find that, in the moments she'd left the room, he had thrown several rolls of toilet paper into the bathtub at a time when you couldn't buy any in stores.

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Then Again, Parents Always Bounce Back

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Tweet: someone liked a ton of my tweets at once and their account has 0 follower and was JUST made, and I thought,
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Even if you're over being a parent for a little bit, you always remember how much you love and care for your kids, and you end up back in their corner in no time.