The kids can drive us up the walls the best of the days but really, would you have it any other way? They say the key to surviving parenthood is a good sense of humour. Here are 25 true to life parenting thoughts that will have you laughing out loud.

• I use to do cool things, now I argue with a smaller version of myself about how to use the toilet.
• If you haven't carried your kids out of a shop surfboard style are you even a parent?
• Parenting, when doing anything on your own is a luxury.
• My baby can sleep through anything, except me sitting down.
• Before becoming a parent. I didn't know I could ruin someone's life by asking them to put pants on...
• Having a 2-year-old is like owning a blender that you don't have a top for.
• Early motherhood is just an experiment to see how long a human can survive on little to no sleep.
• Some children threaten to run away from home. This is the only thing keeping me parents going.
• If evolution really works how come mothers only have two hands?
• My kid is turning out to be exactly like me. Well played, karma. Well played.
• Motherhood is spending 90% of your time putting other people's crap away.
• You're making it difficult to be the parent I always imagined I would be.
• Some days my kids can do no wrong. Other days I understand why some animals eat their young.
• It's all fun and games until you have to wake up and be a parent at 6 am.
• Great parenting is somewhere in between "don't do that" and "ah, what the hell".
• How is it I start my day as Mary Poppins only to end the day as Cruella Deville?
• Women who say childbirth is the most painful thing in the world have yet to step on Lego.
• Of course, I'm a good mother. They're still alive, aren't they?
• How I managed to keep you alive but kill every houseplant I have ever owned is beyond me.
• I'm pretty sure my laundry breeds when I'm asleep.
• And finally, parenthood is wanting to be with your kid forever one minute and being tempted to sell them the next.