“Don’t tell Mom!”
Oklahoma redditor hinkster81 has five children. Here he is with the three youngest. He’s learned a bit about parenting by now, specifically how fun it can be. Or maybe he is trying to convince his wife to never leave him alone with the children again. -via reddit
Snapchat didn't revolutionize the world of social media apps, nor did it give us a bunch of amazing features we hadn't seen before.
But the app has made some silly dreams come true- like the dream of giving your baby a beard. Not your idea of fun? Maybe it's a dad thing.
Snapchat lets dads apply a filter beard to their unsuspecting infants while shooting videos and pics on their phones, and yet, as the dad in this video from AFV found out, Snapchat filters aren't programmed to handle sneezes.
-Via Laughing Squid
Ask a little kid "guess what?", wait for them to say "what?" then reply "chicken butt" and watch their face light up at the absurdity of what you just said, either that or they'll yell something like "you're not funny!" and storm off.
Kids are weird, which is why they're likely to repeat the phrase "guess what? chicken butt" after hearing it for the first time, spreading it through the schoolyard like a linguistic flu bug.
But, like many of the silly rhymes kids love to repeat, the origin of the reference is complicated and far from common knowledge, just like the fact that butchers used to call barrels full of chicken shoulders "butts".
Simon Whistler discusses the origin of this strange schoolyard phrase in this Today I Found Out video, so you can school kids on where their favorite chicken butt joke came from!
-Via Laughing Squid
Makeup artists love to see how far they can take a transformation before it becomes too obvious or ridiculous.
Which is why they often choose to do old age, gender or species swap makeups, so they can show off their face painting skills by completely transforming a subject.
But makeup artist Lynn Hetherington Becker really had her work cut out for her when she decided to transform this darling 3-year-old girl into an ugly old hag.
Lynn's subjects are typically little cuties who have their cuteness enhanced by the adorable images she paints on their faces.
But when Lynn goes for a transformative old age look the illusion is only broken when the camera pulls out and reveals the hag's cute little hands and feet.
-Via Bored Panda
There are two main reasons why children leave notes for the tooth fairy instead of just leaving a tooth under their pillow. The biggest reason is an explanation of why the tooth is not physically here… they lost it, swallowed it, the dog ate it, it fell in the toilet, etc. The other reason is to negotiate how much money they should get for their tooth -and kids can be clever lobbyists for extra funds. In a collection of funny notes to the Tooth Fairy, there both types of letters and a few exceptions, like the late notices and one adorable note from a child arranging for the Tooth Fairy to meet Santa Claus at the child’s home during the night.
Some kids are such picky eaters that nothing on the menu ever sounds good to them but dessert, making their parents wish they could just let the kid eat a sundae for dinner and be done with it.
But kids will always be stubborn about ordering and dessert ain't dinner, so The Deli Mansion Park in Altoona, Pennsylvania changed the name of the items on their kid's menu to fit a picky kid's lingo.
So when picky kids say "I don't know", "I'm not hungry" or "I don't want that" they're actually ordering from the menu!
-Via Laughing Squid
The headline for the video could have been: Dad of the year constructs the world’s greatest backyard. Gavin McCall built a Ninja Warrior Course for his 5-year-old daughter Lila. Watch her take on the challenge.
Lila slays! She’s got strength, agility, balance, and fearlessness far beyond other kindergarteners. That comes from practice, and how could you not practice with a backyard like this? Watch out, she’ll be a force to be reckoned with when she’s old enough to compete on TV. -via reddit
Ayumi Omori is the mother of two-year-old twins, a boy and a girl. Nap time is a crucial break for mothers, particularly those with a couple of two-year-olds, and Omari takes that opportunity for creativity. While the kids nap, she arranges intricate scenery around them to create cute pictures of their “adventures.”
I saw this magic show and thought, Aw, she bought two shirts just the same for this picture. Wait, they’re twins. This family probably has a lot of clothes in two copies.
Standard school detention involves making the kids sit quietly in a room after school or on the weekend for hours on end, tortured by the inability to do anything but stare in silence
This method of punishment has been in place for decades even though it has proven to be ineffective and sounds more like meditation than jail time, so Robert W. Coleman Elementary School made a change.
They replaced detention with meditation in the Mindful Moment Room, having kids sit, breathe, relax and talk through their problems rather than stare at a wall, and so far it seems to be helping.
Suspension and detention numbers are down at Robert W. Coleman Elementary, and kids are learning a positive and more productive way to deal with their problems that they're taking home with them.
And let's face it- what did we ever learn in detention besides how to quietly carve our initials into a desk or how to pass notes without getting caught?
Read This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning. here
Sabrina Gonzalez’s dad works at Costco, and he sent her a picture of himself with several of the store’s famous giant teddy bears. She joked in response, “Maddie needs one of those.” Maddie is her five-month-old daughter. Grandpa took that as a challenge, so Maddie got her bear that very day. Madeline Jane can "bearly" be found in a picture of the bear at home! You can see more pictures of the bear (and Maddie) here. Meanwhile, the bear takes up an awful lot of room, so he is being stored at -you guessed it- Grandpa’s house. -via Metafilter
(Image credit: Sabrina Gonzalez)
Kids sure do love candy, and the internet loves to look at pics of cute little kids taken while they're playing, emoting or making a mess, in other words when a kid is being a kid.
So it comes as no surprise the internet community simply adores little Beatrix Hart, nicknamed the Cotton Candy Girl after she was spotted stuffing her face with spun sugar at a Seattle Mariners game.
It was the first time the 3-year-old had ever eaten cotton candy so she had all the feels hit her at once, a sensation sugarholics know as the day they got hooked for life on those sweet treats.
We're going to need more cotton candy. pic.twitter.com/SNpjgZSGlA
— Mariners (@Mariners) September 8, 2016
Her pic went viral after the Seattle Mariners shared this GIF via Twitter, transforming that chubby cheeked little cherub into an internet sensation.
Now fans are calling for a Cotton Candy Girl night at the stadium and trying to convince the Mariners that Beatrix should be able to throw out the first pitch at a game, which is all a bit too much for little miss Hart to handle.
Thanks @Mariners Beatrix sleeps the deep and satisfied slumber of an M's victory! pic.twitter.com/GBkb2kAez8
— Jake Hart (@jakehartnyc) September 8, 2016
-Via BuzzFeed
Babies who love dogs are cute, but dogs who love and put up with babies are the cutest because they display a gentle side even when the little one is getting on their nerves.
Now take a stubborn baby lovin' bulldog and a toddler who's trying to be like mommy and daddy and take his four legged friend on a walk and you've got the makings of awwwww-dorability.
It's not surprising the 11-month-old in the video had a hard time walking Bernie the bulldog , that meaty hunk of a dog weighs 80 pounds!
-Via Good Housekeeping
Parents always remember their kid's first day of school and the graduation ceremony on the last, but they rarely have the foresight to recreate the first day photo some thirteen years later on their last day of school.
If the kindergartener was being held by their mom or dad in the first day photo it will naturally be much harder to replicate, but this strong dad powered through the last day photo shoot for the sake of posterity.
Bored Panda asked people to submit their first versus last day of school pics in honor of kids going back to school, and most of the submissions they received were surprisingly creative.
Some used Photoshop skills to create a time travel paradox so they could stand next to their first day of school selves.
While others relied on more traditional methods to create the perfect first vs last day pic.
Something tells me people are going to start doing this a whole lot more now, and I'm definitely stealing this idea when my kid starts school!
See 10+ Pics Of First Day Of School Vs Last Day Of School here
Check out this young boys' room: it has its own skybox, a loft platform near the ceiling with a wooden fence enclosure. You can only get to it by climbing a mountain -or a rock-climbing simulator, in this case. You can climb back down, but why would you, when there’s a slide? But that’s not all. He has a boat for a bed, a ship’s wheel, and more. See photos of the construction along with some tidbits from the father who built it at Housely.
Violet Ogea is two years old, but she’s destined to become a star. She’s singing the alphabet song as if it’s opening night at the Metropolitan Opera. People have compared her singing to Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, and Elaine Stritch as two-year-olds.
Violet has the fearlessness and stage presence of someone twice her age -or even older. Her mother, photographer Christina Ogea, has plenty of other videos of Violet singing at her Facebook page and at Instagram. -via Buzzfeed
