Being a parent is a joy that truly changes the whole essence of one’s being. Each day is a truly wonderful gift and magical journey bestowing you with endless love and compassion and … Okay, now that we have chased off the childless people who just showed up looking for memes, we can get real. Even though every thing we previously said is absolutely, 100 percent true, now that it’s just us we can admit that sometimes it is also not true. For every time we are blessed with seeing the wonder on our child’s face as she learns a new skill, there is another time when we are blessed with a sneeze right in our face as we catch another daycare cold. For every time our heart swells with love at picking out teeny tiny toddler shoes, there is also another time where there is heart-stopping (and ear-puncturing) screeching about getting said shoes on little feet to get out the door.
Of course we wouldn’t trade the stuffed noses and shoe-screeching for anything, but sometimes commiseration with other like-minded (and by that we mean sleep-deprived) individuals is needed, specifically laughing while scrolling through our phones, hiding in the bathroom as a very small hand tries to reach under the door. Below are memes so accurate you know they were created by other parents or at least people with surveillance cameras in our homes. (FBI, is that you?) Sometimes a parent just has to laugh, mainly because crying is the only other option — that or packing a bag and running off into the night screaming the lyrics to the Baby Shark song.
Hopefully, these memes about the shared parenting experience will take the edge off hearing doo doo doo doo doo doo repeated all day, every day, but not promises. One last note before bathroom-hiding phone time: Please be careful not to share these memes with the childless people from before. We don’t want to scare them away from having children; we need more parent-friends, after all.
Baby Shark
We're sorry. We've shared the curse to mentally hum this song for the rest of the day.
Before and After
It's not like we've had the chance to watch Birdbox, but this feels right. The only inaccurate part is Sandra Bullock isn't wearing leggings.
Grown-Up Bedtimes
Excuse us while we dream for a second we could be in bed by 8. Can someone show our child this?
Rage Cleaning
This would be funny if it weren't so true. On plus side, our house is spotless.
Parenting Style
The 2-year-old is twice as old as her sibling. It's basically the same as letting a 20-year-old babysit a 10-year-old. Basically.
Let's Play Pretend
We're going to play pretend that we're not mad about it. Is that better, sweetie?
Second Baby Problem
This is basically us if we were an Instagram influencer. It'll still get us a Fab Fit Fun partnership, right?
Careful
Easy… easy… easy… The only bright side is if it's your partner that "detonates the bomb" it's that person's job to deal with the "explosion."
Could Be Hotter
We will never be shamed for our extra-hot showers. They are so few and far between we have to make up for lost time.
Momhack
We know this is supposed to be a joke, but we're distracted by how great of a momhack this is. If this gets a toddler to take medicine we will laugh all the way to the pediatrician.
Basically
This is another meme that would be more funny if we weren't about to try it. Excuse us while we pick up an extra spicy chocolate bar.
Sorry, Caillou's Mom
We never thought you could hate a cartoon baby and yet here we are. And we're not sorry about it either.
How Dare They
We need to start a rule of all-bathrobe Sundays, just so we can enjoy this feeling. We wear the same yoga pants every day. Can't our family do the same?
Do All the Things
How about we stand in the kitchen eating cheese while we panic? Ok, good, because that's what we ended up doing anyway.
Don't Look
The only upside of doing any sort of adulting is secretly eating leftover treats. The cake is not going to spoil our dinner of our kid's leftover chicken nuggets, we're sure.
If We're Lucky
Please see #2 about not having the time to watch Birdbox. We might be able to finish it by early 2020.
Kids, Tell Your Father
This post is by a British Instagrammer and it really proves that sometimes husbands can be useless no matter which side of the Atlantic you live on. Our kids would sound classier if they called us "Mummy" though.
Every Single Time
Were not mad that our kids do those weird things because we're the weird parents they take after. We just wish they'd learn to wait until it's been a few meetings before they bust out the weird behavior.
Fingers Crossed
Fingers crossed that this works. If it doesn't, at least we get to eat a bonus grilled cheese.
Good Enough
This gave us a good LOL. Sadly, the LOL was mainly at the idea of cleaning the house.
