35 Parenting Fails That Are Always Funny
Because, at some point, we are all that mom or dad.
Sometimes, our parenting game is really on point. The kids are clean, dressed, fed, and behaving. The family is humming along like a well-oiled machine. Nothing gets forgotten, everybody's satisfied, if not happy. Then, there are the other times. There's no shame in it: Every mom and dad experiences an epic parenting fail every now and then. The only thing you can really do is laugh about it. Here, our favorite parenting fails that always make us chuckle and say, "It me."
When you give them money to go to a store, and they come back with something unexpected.
When your toddler decides she's old enough to give at-home manicures to her brother.
When you want to take a sweet picture of your snoozing cutie and wake her up instead.
When you let them out of your sight right before you have to leave the house.
Marisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; previously, she wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother. She lives with her toy-collecting husband and daughter in Brooklyn, where she can be found helping out her team at bar trivia or posting about movies on Twitter and Bluesky.
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