"Being a parent is tough." We've all heard it, but realize what it really means only later in life. Either when we grow up or when we have some little ones of our own. We finally understand the sacrifices they make, the sleepless nights, the worrying, the amount of patience that one needs to have to raise a child.

But sometimes parenting can be just absurdly comical. Kids sometimes really do the darndest things. In these situations, you don't know whether to laugh or cry. Bored Panda has scoured the vast sea of parenting content to bring you this list. These parents may not be having the best day, but they may certainly lighten up yours.

#1 Bro Thought The Toy Was Identical

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#2 A Very Slow Flushing Toilet Led To My Discovery Of The Most Ironic Toilet Clog. Kids Are Stupid

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#3 Didn't Get A Picture Of The 25-30 Pounds Of Rice He Evenly Spread All Over The Kitchen Floor The Other Day, But Checked Up On Him Half Way Through Disney's Cars 2 To Find This

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#4 Don’t Let Your Kids Run Free In Bulk Barn

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#5 Rest In Peace 140 Hz Monitor

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#6 The Kids Left The Remote On The Heater

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#7 Kid Drew All Over My Mom’s Ralph Lauren Purse

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#8 My 2-Year-Old Son Made A Puzzle For Me

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#9 My Kid Eats The Entire Pint Of Ice Cream And Then Fills It With Water And Freezes It To Make Me Think I Had A Nice Treat To Enjoy At Night

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#10 My Wife's Stationary Bike Just Became A Jellybean Dispenser

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#11 My Niece Stole My Sister's Phone, Hoping For A Feed

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#12 Found Out My Son Has Been Stealing And Selling My Pokémon Cards

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#13 Asked Step-Daughter To Fold Her Clean Laundry And She Threw It In The Trash Instead

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#14 It’s Always Mom. Dad Is For When Mom Says No

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#15 Left My Kids Alone For 5 Minutes. They Were Using This “Normally” And This Happened

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#16 My 4-Year-Old’s Work Of Art

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#17 Consequences Of Oversleeping With A 4-Year-Old In The House

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#18 My 3-Year-Old Daughter Did This Today To My Favorite Thesaurus Which I Held Perfect For Almost 20 Years Since School

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#19 My 6-Year-Old Kid Decided To Doodle On My New (To Me) Truck. With A Rock

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#20 This Is Your Reminder To Take Your Birth Control

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#21 “I Don’t Want Anymore, Dad”

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#22 Left The Kid For A Minute

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#23 Mom Rage Aside, We Made A Memory, Right? And Had A Laugh

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#24 My 8-Year-Old Is Going To Grandma's Place. I Told Him To Dress Nice And Hurry Up Because He's Going To Church With Them. I Didn't See How He Left The House... My Mom Just Sent Me This Pic

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#25 My 2 Preschoolers Just Did This To An Entire Bag Of Cable Ties

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#26 Toddler Is Mightier Than The TV

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#27 Toddler Bit Every Apple Slice

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#28 My 15-Year-Old Son Decided To Move His Sister's Jeep Behind The Garage To Make Room For Another Vehicle, But He “Forgot” It Had No Brakes. So, This Happened To My Fence

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#29 My Roku Controller After I Said "No" To My Three-Year-Old

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#30 My Kid Was Driving While We Were Inside And My Other One Looks Out And Says: Dad, The Golf Cart Is Smoking

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#31 I Love My 7-Year-Old Son, What I Don't Love Is Him Doing This To The Soap For The Past 4 Years

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#32 This Is Why You Don't Let 5-Year-Olds Near Your Phone

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#33 We Can Just End This Topic Now... My Kid Just Took The Cake

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#34 Sounds Normal Enough

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#35 I Find Parenting Involves A Lot Of Saying “Don’t Laugh, Don’t Laugh” Or “Damn, That Was A Good Try” But Remembering To Keep My “Adult” Face On

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#36 “Eating The Other Half Is Too Hard” - My Kid

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#37 My Child’s Playroom 90 Seconds After I Finished Cleaning It Up

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#38 Son Has A Friend Over, They Go Outside With BB Guns. Five Seconds Later

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#39 My Daughter, Ladies And Gentlemen

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#40 I Told My 8-Year-Old To Put The Dryer Sheets Where All The Laundry Stuff Goes

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#41 When My Kid Runs Out Of Toilet Paper, She Will Improvise

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#42 My Kids Just Told Me They’ve Been Putting Fruit Stickers Under Our Kitchen Cabinet For Six Years

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#43 My Son Was Fooling Around With The Cooking Spatula When He Lost Control And It Went Flying Across The Room Into My Monitor

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#44 That Is Triggering

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#45 My Kid MacGyvered His Way To The Markers... Permanent Markers

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#46 While My Family With Young Kids Were Staying At This Airbnb, An Old Man Walked Into The Backyard And Started Draining The Pool

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#47 But Seriously

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#48 My Son Bit The Directional Button Off The Remote

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#49 One Of My Adult Kids Left This In The Fridge

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#50 My Partner's Son Is A Monster

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#51 My Kids Find It Hilarious To Leave Just One Of Whatever They Were Eating

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#52 My Kid’s End-Of-Year Open House. My Wife And I Are The Oldest Parents In Her Class, At 39. Thanks For Making Us Feel Good Kid

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#53 Really Son?

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#54 And She Was So Proud Using The Meat Thermometer

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#55 Yeah, That's What It Translates To In Kid Talk

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#56 POV: You Finally Sit Down For Lunch After 1.5 Hours Of Trying To Get Your Toddler To Nap. You're Hungry, Shaky Hands Knock The Plate Off The Table. The Crash Wakes The Toddler

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#57 I Fell Off The Toilet Last Night Thanks To A Bad Leg Spasm. I Have A Concussion And Had A Minor Brain Bleed. My Son Starts School In Two Days And I Have To Take For His First Day

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#58 My 3-Year-Old Son Decided To Microwave Our 3DS

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#59 I Just Realized My 4-Year-Old Let The Intrusive Thoughts Win

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#60 My Bag Of Trail Mix After The Wife And Kids Pick Out The Good Stuff

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#61 Same Daughter Who Laughed At Idiot Kids On TikTok Cutting Bangs And Crying… Cut Her Bangs Just Now. And Cried. And Cried

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#62 What A Preamble

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#63 The Way My Toddler Eats A Slice Of Bread Every Night Before Going To Bed Because “He’s Still Hungry”

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#64 My 6-Year-Old Is Mad At Me

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#65 Ah, The Joys Of Parenting

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#66 Kid Is Grounded And Spray-Painted The Wall

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#67 Ok, But I've Done That Too

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#68 My 6-Year-Old Begs Me To Play Minecraft With Him And Then Does This The Whole Time To See His Half Of The Screen Better

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#69 My Kids Bought These Pretzels For Me For My Birthday Yesterday. I Haven't Had A Single One Yet

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#70 I’m Sorry. They Are Spectacular

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#71 Went Out To A Play Center On The Weekend. Asked My Daughter To Go Grab Some Aoli For Our Chips. This Is What She Comes Back With

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#72 Gave It A Good Effort

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#73 My Daughter Stepped In Chewing Gum And Then Sat With Her Shoes On The Car Seat

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#74 My Kid Put Her Favorite Toy Down A Drainpipe

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#75 My Wife Had To Write A Not-Sick Note For School

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#76 Ok, But Where's My Spot?

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#77 I Have No Idea How Mad I Should Be

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#78 My Kid Helped Me "Work" On The Car

He did some "adjustments" on the radiator, with a screwdriver. It's a good thing I had extra parts, but it was more work than I wanted for the day.

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#79 Husband Had Two Jobs: Put Toddler In Car Seat And Hand Him Tablet From Car's Roof. Guess, Which He Forgot?

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#80 Literally

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#81 The Kids Put My Wife's New Water Bottle In The Dishwasher. Turns Out It's Not Dishwasher-Safe

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#82 Toddler Is Angry Because His Sister Went To Camp

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#83 My 10-Year-Old Made Easy Mac And Now The Whole House Stinks

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#84 My Toddlers Have Bit The Fingers Off Woody And Now He’s Permanently Giving The Finger

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#85 Today Is The First Meetup Of My Son's Toddler Group. We Are Hosting And Out Of 8 Mothers 7 Canceled Like Half An Hour Before It Would Start. My Wife Just Sent Me This Picture

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#86 Got It Last Night, I Never Liked Crayons

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#87 An Entire Bag Of Cumin That My Toddler Dumped

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#88 Seriously

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#89 My Son Left His New Stretchy Action Figure On The Arm Of The Couch For About An Hour. When He Picked It Up, It Had Left This Mark. That Was 2 Days Ago, I Think It’s Permanent

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#90 I Just Didn’t Think It Could Get This Awful

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#91 Our Daughter's Snake Got Stuck On Top Of Our Dishwasher. That Was Fun

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#92 Parenting Is Crowded Trips To The Bathroom. Who Needs Privacy Anyway?

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#93 Hey Kids, Who Wants A One-A-Month Gummy Vitamin?

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#94 Like Being Unreal Isn't A Full-Time Job Already

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#95 When You Leave The Room To Put Your Little Guy Down For A Nap, And Re-Entering It Makes You Feel Like You've Wandered Into A Landfill

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#96 Not Even The Combined Mind Of Two 11-Year-Olds Could Figure This One Out

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#97 I Ordered These On Amazon For My Kid And They Sent Me Two Left Shoes

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