A moment of muteness for all the things parent have endure this yr .

1.This mom discovered the reason why the TV remote wasn’t working:

2.This parent found their 4-year-old’s work of art:

3.This parent had to deal with their kid running through the aisle on the plane and using seats as a “personal jungle gym”:

4.This parent learned why his son got in trouble in school:

5.This daughter doodled on her dad’s new truck with a rock:

6.This son left his skateboard in the worst possible place:

7.This parent’s 3-year-old pulled off a handle from the master bathtub and hid it:

8.This kid was left alone juuuust for a minute:

9.This daughter puts on new toilet paper like this:

10.This kid decided to test some crayons on a brand-new Nintendo Switch:

11.These kids left the remote on the heater:

12.This daughter was asked to take out the clean dishes from the dishwasher, and well, shedidtake them out:

13.This kid won’t give the phone back:

14.This kid ate this entire pint of ice cream, and then filled it with water and froze it for their parent to enjoy:

15.This kid left their mark at the grocery store:

Ah yes, a fresh hand print in flour.

16.This mom learned her wedding purse was being used for a new purpose:

17.This son uses toothpaste like this:

18.This mom’s Ralph Lauren purse got a makeover:

19.This boss’s son came in the office, scribbled all over an employee’s whiteboard, and left all the fine-tip markers looking like this:

20.This parent’s 16-year-old son leaves just a few drops of Gatorade in each bottle and then leaves the rest in the fridge:

21.This parent’s 2-year-old threw his sippy cup at the TV:

22.This parent found the culprit that clogged the toilet:

23.This parent’s “favorite thesaurus,” which was in perfect condition for 20 years — until their 3-year-old daughter got ahold of it:

24.This stepdaughter was asked to fold her clean laundry…but she threw it in the trash instead:

25.This kid was done eating this banana and handed it over to Dad:

26.This daughter left this hairbrush hanging in the shower:

27.This kid’s bedroom:

28.This kid threw a Nintendo Switch in the toilet:

29.This kid ripped open over 20 packs of Pokémon cards, kept, like, four of them, and threw the rest on the ground:

30.These kids always leave empty food packages in the pantry:

31.These fish owners went on vacation for a week and left the neighbor’s daughter in charge of feeding their fish — and they came back to this:

32.These adult kids left these “leftovers” in the fridge:

33.These kids only lose left gloves:

34.These kids left the library like this:

35.And finally, these preschoolers did this to an ENTIRE bag of their parent’s cable ties:

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A moment of silence for all the things parents have endured this year.

candy stuffed into a remote

Drawings on the wall

a child's feet on top of an airplane seat

a note from a teacher to a parent about their kid's behavior

Lines scratched into a truck

a skateboard next to an entrance

A missing bathtub handle

Kid's drawings on a hospital bed

An empty toilet paper roll next to a full one

a Nintendo Switch with writing all over it

A melted remote

Dishes stacked on the counter

"No"

Frozen water in an ice cream carton

A hand print in some flour

A hand print in some flour

pepperoni in a wedding purse

A twisted toothpaste tube

Markings on a pink purse

A messed-up Expo marker

Gatorade bottles with hardly anything left

A broken TV

A Mario toy

Scribbling on a book page

Clothes in the trash

Clothes on the counter

A banana with bite marks on the sides

A brush completely covered in hair

A giant mess on the floor

A Nintendo Switch in the toilet

Cards all over the ground

An empty Oreos package

A dirty fish tank

A plate with hardly any food left in the fridge

Left gloves on a counter

A messy table in a library

Messed-up cable ties