Being a parent is a tough job, but it helps to keep a sense of humor. That’s where James Breakwell comes in. The comedy writer and father of four is the author of the @XplodingUnicorns account. There, Breakwell chronicles the day-to-day difficulties of being a husband and father, often in the form of conversations he has with them. It’s pretty obvious right away that the wife and kids are just as funny as he is, but in the end, we all win.
1. The human napkin.
Being a dad means always being a shoulder to cry on.
by Jillian Lucas on Deals, shared by Jillian Lucas to Kotaku
This Cricut Explore Air Premium Bundle comes with the Cricut Air Machine to print and cut your designs, an iron on kit, and a vinyl kit. Create your own designs to stick places. Make pillows cheaper than you can buy them from Urban Outfitters. Start your own Etsy shop and get in on the side hustle game. The…
If you're a fan of chocolate in every way, shape, and form, then perhaps you've given cacao nibs a try. Were you as surprised by them as I was? No, cacao nibs do not taste like my favorite bar of dark chocolate — they are far more bitter!
Essentially unprocessed chocolate, cacao or cocoa nibs are the part of the cocoa bean that are ground up and then sweetened and made into chocolate bars. On their own, they're crunchy and have the flavor of unsweetened chocolate — extra-bitter and fruity. Since we're used to eating sweetened chocolate — even the darkest dark chocolate has some sugar in there to balance it out — cacao nibs can come as a bit of a shock.
Write them off then? Oh, no. You see, there's a way to make them taste pretty fabulous. So fabulous, in fact, that you may find yourself sprinkling them over practically everything that comes out of your kitchen, from ice cream to yogurt to even salad.
War and peace are both tricky things to maintain, but the guy and gal behind the comic War and Peas have easily maintained their hilarious comic strip for over five years now.
Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz hail from Saarbrücken, Germany, where they find the climate to be perfect for comic strip creation, and they've been entertaining our eyeballs with their easy to love comics since 2011.
Their strip was once called L.I.N.S., but they changed it to War And Peas "because we liked this one much better", and they craft their strip with the same "less acronyms and more laughs" approach because they're cool like that.
There will be many obstacles on the way to the promised single cable type USB-C utopia: new standards that aren't backwards compatible; USB-C sockets that outwardly look the same, but aren't functionally the same; and, of course, dodgy USB-C cables that can fry your exceedingly expensive Chromebook Pixel or MacBook laptop. In the mean time, might I recommend a healthy dose of vigilance, some branded USB-C cables and chargers, and if you're feeling fancy, perhaps a USB-C power meter?
Satechi, which makes a range of reasonably well-reviewed USB cables, hubs, and peripherals, has just released a USB-C power meter ($30, or about £35 delivered to the UK). There are lots of good USB power meters on the market for older USB sockets and standards, but this appears to be the first true USB-C meter (earlier meters aren't rated to the full 5A/20V requirements of USB Power Delivery 2.0).
As most parents can attest, the table is one of the main battlegrounds in the parent-child relationship. Some kids just refuse to eat certain things, often for the weirdest reasons, or even no reason at all. For example, if we were having applesauce, I needed it served in a separate dish. If applesauce were on my main plate, seeped over to my burger, and soaked into the bun, mealtime was OVER.
Parents can try negotiation, compromise, bribery, subterfuge, threats, or outright begging, but whatever the outcome, everyone’s stress level is going to be elevated. Thankfully, the blog Mommy Shorts is here to help. They asked parents to supply their kids’ oddest and most frustrating eating restrictions, and the results are hilarious. If you’re a parent, or a child, or a former child, you’ll find something familiar here.
1. Unbreaded
2. Crust, crust everywhere
3. Is it still the other white meat? So confused.
4. Cob me, Mom.
5. Green bean inspector
As most parents can attest, the table is one of the main battlegrounds in the parent-child relationship. Some kids just refuse to eat certain things, often for the weirdest reasons, or even no reason at all. For example, if we were having applesauce, I needed it served in a separate dish. If applesauce were on my main plate, seeped over to my burger, and soaked into the bun, mealtime was OVER.
Parents can try negotiation, compromise, bribery, subterfuge, threats, or outright begging, but whatever the outcome, everyone’s stress level is going to be elevated. Thankfully, the blog Mommy Shorts is here to help. They asked parents to supply their kids’ oddest and most frustrating eating restrictions, and the results are hilarious. If you’re a parent, or a child, or a former child, you’ll find something familiar here.
Toddlers have a knack for saying the unexpected. As they begin to figure out language, sometimes the things they say can verge on poetry. Parents everywhere enjoy their kids’ weird sayings, but illustrator and father of a two-year-old Martin Bruckner brings them to life with a series of bizarre and often funny drawings. You can check them out here and on Bruckner’s Facebook page, Spaghetti Toes, which was inspired after overhearing his wife tell his daughter not to put spaghetti between her toes. (Who hasn’t wanted to do that?)
1. A reminder to never eat Darth Vader.
2. Good question!
3. It’s a real whodunit.
4. You’ve heard of granny panties.
5. It’s good to be the princess
Toddlers have a knack for saying the unexpected. As they begin to figure out language, sometimes the things they say can verge on poetry. Parents everywhere enjoy their kids’ weird sayings, but illustrator and father of a two-year-old Martin Bruckner brings them to life with a series of bizarre and often funny drawings. You can check them out here and on Bruckner’s Facebook page, Spaghetti Toes, which was inspired after overhearing his wife tell his daughter not to put spaghetti between her toes. (Who hasn’t wanted to do that?)
Here at AFP we love celebrating parents who prank their kids, but today the shoe is on the other foot. Liz Hammett has a loving Mom who sometimes tends to be gullible, a mischievous sense of humor, and seemingly inexhaustible appetite for messing with her mother. In a gallery of screenshotted text messages originally posted to her Facebook page, Hammett employs all manner of trickery to get her Mom’s goat, and we all benefit. Technology really does make everyone’s life better. Well, it might make things a bit worse for Mom, but she seems like a good sport about it.
1. Siren call
2. Wreath thief
3. The case of the missing punctuation mark
4. Gnome tampering
5. Authentication
Here at AFP we love celebrating parents who prank their kids, but today the shoe is on the other foot. Liz Hammett has a loving Mom who sometimes tends to be gullible, a mischievous sense of humor, and seemingly inexhaustible appetite for messing with her mother. In a gallery of screenshotted text messages originally posted to her Facebook page, Hammett employs all manner of trickery to get her Mom’s goat, and we all benefit. Technology really does make everyone’s life better. Well, it might make things a bit worse for Mom, but she seems like a good sport about it.
Learning to read music is like learning to read another language. Sheet music has a variety of dots, lines, and symbols to tell you what and when to play. It all looks very daunting at first, but this video helps you break down some of the basics.
by Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki to Lifehacker
Just because your car has three spaces for human beings across the back seat doesn’t mean it can actually fit three properly buckled children. I know I had a moment of panic when I was pregnant with my third, when for a minute it looked like it might not be possible to fit all my kids in my car.
by Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Andy Orin to Lifehacker
Dutch ovens are essential for tasks like braising meat and cooking up hearty stews, but they are also quite large, and take up more than their fair share of oven real estate. To use your Dutch oven to braise and roast at the same time, just flip the lid over.
Flowers are pretty and all, but they don't really do much. If you want to impress someone who doesn't care about aesthetics all that much, skip the traditional bouquet and instead visit Say It With Beef where you can buy a Broquet made of delicious meat products life beef sticks and jerky. The flowers come in two varieties -daisies and roses and they even come in a special romantic pint glass or beer mug.
Disneyland and Disney World have better restaurants than the typical theme park. Whether you're in the mood for fine dining, something perfect for kids or a little bit of both, the parks have you covered. And thanks to Travel and Leisure, now you can know which of the restaurants at the park are the best no matter what you're looking for.
Of course, if you want to visit all the restuarants, you'll have to travel both coasts and different parks and hotels, but if you're a big enough Disney fan, that won't be much of a problem anyway.
by Jillian Lucas on Deals, shared by Jillian Lucas to Kotaku
Be the envy of your D&D game night with this giant bag of gaming dice. $12 gets you a multitude of options, from 4-sided up to 20-sided, in seven different colors.
Drawing on stuff around the house can be fun, but as most kids discover when they get in trouble for drawing on the walls ink is extremely hard to wipe off, unlike chalk off a chalkboard.
That's why people who want to write on stuff like dressers, pitchers, serving trays, crockpots or staircases need to grab a can of chalkboard paint and turn those surfaces into something to chalk about.
Being a parent means creating a safe and healthy environment for your children, and then watching as they tear that environment apart in ways you could never predict. Recently, parents of Reddit shared rules they never imagined they’d need, much less have to enforce. These are the situations no parenting book can prepare you for.
The future vet.
2. Slip ‘n’ Slide.
3. Butter isn’t safe.
4. PTSD for the lady in 4B.
5. The masochist.
6. Instant messenger.
7. The super-taster.
8. Slap happy.
9. A dog’s life.
10. Hide ‘N’ Seek.
Being a parent means creating a safe and healthy environment for your children, and then watching as they tear that environment apart in ways you could never predict. Recently, parents of Reddit shared rules they never imagined they’d need, much less have to enforce. These are the situations no parenting book can prepare you for.
2016 brought us a lot of things. Good things. Bad things. And more than a few bizarre things. However you feel about this year though, there’s no denying that Twitter, as usual, gave us plenty to laugh about, especially where parenting tweets are concerned.
Check out this list of the year’s funniest tweets about kids to see what we mean. You don’t need to be a parent to find them funny. All you need is a sense of humor. Which one is the funniest? Let us know in the comments below and don’t forget to vote for the best!
#1
My 14yo made fun of me this morning because I had to go to work while he had a snow day, so I changed the wifi password.
2016 brought us a lot of things. Good things. Bad things. And more than a few bizarre things. However you feel about this year though, there’s no denying that Twitter, as usual, gave us plenty to laugh about, especially where parenting tweets are concerned.
Check out this list of the year’s funniest tweets about kids to see what we mean. You don’t need to be a parent to find them funny. All you need is a sense of humor. Which one is the funniest? Let us know in the comments below and don’t forget to vote for the best!
#1
My 14yo made fun of me this morning because I had to go to work while he had a snow day, so I changed the wifi password.
Over the past several years the electric pressure cooker has seen a huge resurgence in popularity. Some cooks have even jumped at the chance to let it replace the slow cooker, but not me. Both of these appliances have made life in the kitchen easier and more convenient, but for different reasons. Make sure both of these tools are helping you in the kitchen by taking advantage of what they do best.
If you need a bed frame that will fit the theme of your kid’s room, you can try building it yourself instead of shopping around. This bed frame is sturdy, easy to build, and a great starting point for any custom bed a kid will love.
In recent years, peanut allergies among kids have soared, creating life-long sensitivities that can be deadly and banishing beloved PB&Js from lunch boxes everywhere. While the cause is still unclear, health experts are confident they’ve found the solution to the plague of peanut allergies: peanuts.
Parents, pediatricians, and other healthcare providers are now firmly advised to start feeding infants peanut-laced foods to head off allergies before they develop. Based on mounting evidence, experts think there’s a “window of time in which the body is more likely to tolerate a food than react to it, and if you can educate the body during that window, you’re at much lower likelihood of developing an allergy to that food,” Matthew Greenhawt, a food allergy expert, told TheNew York Times.
As such, a National Institutes of Health panel of specialists, including Dr. Greenhawt, released today a new set of guidelines for tossing peanuts into that window.
by Shep McAllister on Deals, shared by Shep McAllister to Kotaku
Your favorite USB car charger just happens to be the smallest one you can buy, and you can grab it on Amazon for $7 today with code AUKCARS7 (black only). This is Kinja Deals’ top-selling product of all time, and if it’s been on your wish list, this is the best price we’ve seen in about a year.
