Parenting young children can often result in a chaotic living environment. Heck, living with kids of any age can be a struggle when it comes to keeping a clean and tidy home!
So when one mum tweeted asking parents to share honest depictions of parenthood in the moment, Twitter more than delivered with images of their own happy messes.
Can we get a realistic mom/parenting photo thread going? No aesthetic filters, no staging – what does the room you’re in look like RIGHT NOW?
— amanda 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 (@alkellzz) February 27, 2022
Amanda, the mum who began the thread, went first with a picture of her bathroom.
Here’s my bathroom, and it’s been like this for days. I just have no energy to clean up. It’s not too bad, but it feels better knowing others aren’t perfect too. I’m tired of unrealistic expectations to keep a spotless home, home cooked meals every day & somehow entertain kids pic.twitter.com/jm9ncespGW
— amanda 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 (@alkellzz) February 27, 2022
What came next is enough to make all of us feel better about the state of our lived-in homes!
I have arrived to make everyone else feel better about their homes. pic.twitter.com/e7NGcRGLdO
— Ms. Faintly Macabre (@mer_hartley) February 28, 2022
If you don’t use your kids pack and play to hold all kinds of random shit and not ever put your child in it are you even a parent pic.twitter.com/yjTr9yhqnm
— Ash 🐸 (@starlitdaydream) February 27, 2022
The struggle is real. Takes about 10 minutes to go from totally clean to chaosville. pic.twitter.com/m1lSjf4GAn
— Hali Hoag (@Aitchess55) February 27, 2022
this thread makes me feel better knowing i’m not alone ❤️ sometimes it’s hard to forget we don’t always have to have it together. pic.twitter.com/Eef37AAIfS
— 𝑘𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛♡ (@kloreneong) February 27, 2022
Notice how there are no legos on the lego table 🙈 pic.twitter.com/w2Vk40bRno
— Kerry Ruckdashel (@ruckdashelmama) February 27, 2022
That’s chalk on my son’s bedroom walls. That’s the price of 5 min of silence. 😂 pic.twitter.com/qNpUfjfYHM
— Vanessa Avila (@VLonghorn07) February 27, 2022
This is what our coffee table looks like right now… you can see a pile of clothes that need to be folded… from a week ago. pic.twitter.com/I0Ngg4dQCn
— Audrey Dugas Bourdon (@DugasBourdon) February 27, 2022
The struggle is real. Takes about 10 minutes to go from totally clean to chaosville. pic.twitter.com/m1lSjf4GAn
— Hali Hoag (@Aitchess55) February 27, 2022
My living room 🤷🏼♀️ pic.twitter.com/pqHCSsYmsD
— Tara (@Turra_bear) February 27, 2022
— 𝓣𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓪 𝓜𝓪𝓵𝓭𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓭𝓸 (@xTrishMaldonado) February 27, 2022
My living room right now. Actually not that bad for a weekend… pic.twitter.com/TWBINyJhh8
— if you have ghosts (@youhveverything) February 27, 2022
There, don’t we all feel just a little bit better now? I sure do!
