Join the club: 12 of the funniest tweets about being a parent

Being a parent can be isolating sometimes and sometimes you wonder if other parents have the same experiences, daily struggles, triumphs and failures as you do.

However, these tweets from some of our favourite parenting bloggers and Twitter users show us that they do. These hilarious tweets capture what it’s really like to be a parent and you won’t feel so alone after reading it.

Being a parent is never easy but it helps if you have a good sense of humour like these parents.

These are twelve of the funniest parenting tweets we’ve read lately- enjoy mums!

1. When you realise that you may not be setting a “perfect” example

4: "Mom, I'm gonna be just like you when I grow up and say bad words and eat French fries two at a time."
— Ashley Austrew (@ashleyaustrew) September 19, 2016

2. When they think of crazy ways to torment you

My 9yo has a hidden alarm in his room that goes off at 3 pm because he likes annoying me even when he's still at school.
— Amy Flory (@FunnyIsFamily) March 30, 2017

3. When you’re trying to allay bedtime fears

For the 10th time there's no monster, but if there were it'd eat your sister 1st. She has more meat on her bones.
--me winning at parenting
— CrazyExhaustion (@CrazyExhaustion) April 1, 2017

4. The things you have to do for them

Parents: "I love you more than life itself and I would die for you any day my angel."

Me: "Play on the floor with me."

Parents: pic.twitter.com/J3M8VwLo8Q
— Honest Toddler (@HonestToddler) April 20, 2017

5. Their amazing sense of timing

If you don't hear, "I'm hungry" immediately after saying, "time for bed" you must not have kids.
— Meredith (@PerfectPending) April 29, 2017

6. Trying to have an unaccompanied bathroom break

You can't tell, but there's a mother bird in the middle of all of these kid birds just trying to go to the bathroom alone. pic.twitter.com/sbPFJUa1lC
— Jennifer S. White (@yenniwhite) February 3, 2017

7. Silence is golden

If you haven't ever held crunchy late-night snacks in your mouth to soften them before chewing, do you even have kids?
— HowToBeADad (@HowToBeADad) April 23, 2017

8. Selective deafness

Kids when you’re talking to them: Hear nothing.
Kids when you’re talking to another adult: What did you say? What? WHAAAAAAAT????
— Meredith (@PerfectPending) April 27, 2017

9. Grooming struggles

I'm sorry, officer, I know it sounds like I'm murdering angry, feral cats, but I'm just trying to put my daughter's hair in a ponytail.
— MyQuestionableLife (@2questionable) April 25, 2017

10. When they come home with a musical instrument