40+ Honest Back-to-School Tweets From Tired Parents

This article appeared in thefashionball.com and has been published here with permission.

Kids are a handful. Any parent or person who has spent time around them knows this. When you’re dealing with multiple children at once, all day every day, it wears on you fast. Most parents are secretly — or not so secretly in this case — rejoicing when their kids go back to school. Here’s a compiled list of relatable tweets posted by tired parents about their kids going back to school.

Nocturnal Kids Love to Procrastinate

Putting children to bed can be a big hassle. It's not as bad during the summer when you aren't as worried about them having to get up early, but during the school year, kids who refuse to go to sleep can drive you crazy.

Anyone who has ever tried to put a kid to bed knows how accurate this is. It's like they believe they'll miss something incredible if they let their eyes close when, in reality, all they're missing is their parents passing out on the sofa at nine at night.

No Playground for Middle Schoolers

Ask your average kid what their favorite class is, and their answer will be one of three things - arts, P.E., or recess. They don't care if recess isn't technically a class; that one time of day they have complete freedom is what sticks out to them.

The lack of a playground is one of the biggest changes of going to middle school, and one of the hardest. We expect middle schoolers to grow up too fast when they just want to play with their friends like any other kid.

Alone and Concerned

When we live with other people, we don't realize how much we come to rely on them until they're gone, like the kids going back to school or a partner starting a new job that takes them out of the house.

This is actually a valid concern because up until now, he has probably been able to always count on someone being home to open the door for him, so he hasn't had to worry about keys.

A Big Load of Bull

Lots of parents watch the news daily - and every once in awhile their children will watch along with them. The thing is that they don't necessarily understand what's going on or who they're referring to.

What his daughter doesn't realize is that the people the television was referring to were the parents, not the kids. We know kids and teachers dread it, but parents are literally rejoicing over their newfound freedom from hearing "MOM!" or "DAD!" 500 times a day.