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Article created by: Ilona Baliūnaitė

The times might change but one thing stays constant—raising kids. And speak to any parent in your social circle and you’re bound to hear about what a ridiculously awesome challenge it is. Fun but exhausting. Heartwarming yet tiring. Absolutely hilarious but bordering on tears because your kids won’t eat the meal they asked for and you haven’t slept for, seemingly, years. Raising munchkins is a natural part of life and, at the end of the day, building a family together is one of the coolest parts of life on Planet Earth. (Right next to owning cats and dogs.)

But don’t just take our word for it. There are plenty of parents sharing the funny, quirky, and sometimes mind-boggling ups and downs of their daily lives raising kids right on social media. And Bored Panda’s collected some of the best recent parenting tweets for you to kick back with and enjoy. Perhaps with a hot mug of tea and that candy bar that you hid away from all your other family members.

Done upvoting your fave parenting tweets of the month? Want some more parenting wins and woes to read during work? You’re cordially invited to check out our earlier lists from March, February, and January 2021. Happy scrolling!

However, sometimes parenting seems like an insurmountable challenge. Burnout and stress are replacing the fun and it’s easy to feel lost. Bored Panda wanted to learn about how to better navigate the more challenging sides of parenting, so we reached out to counselor Katie Rose, the founder of the Chigwell Therapy Centre and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Therapist Katie went into detail about how we should avoid wanting to be perfect, how resilience and occasional boredom are essential for kids, and how gratitude and opening up to others can help parents deal with daily stress.

“I think that as parents, we feel the need to be perfect. Usually, that means trying (and failing) to live up to unreasonably high expectations we’ve set for ourselves and are impossible to meet,” Katie said. “Instead, consider this. In order for our children to learn and grow, they need to understand that we’re not perfect—in fact, that perfection doesn’t even exist. Instead, by failing them in small, manageable ways, we help them learn to tolerate the small frustrations that they will inevitably face in their everyday lives in the future, helping them grow into successful adults.” You’ll find Bored Panda’s full interview with Katie below.