Parents are sharing photos of themselves before and after kids
Does this look familiar?
Does this look familiar?
Does this look familiar?
Every parent will be able to relate to the tired eyes, multiplying wrinkles, and just overall exhaustion in this hashtag #GotToddlered. Mike Julianelle runs the Instagram account , where he "celebrates" parenthood through photos and memes of "things children have ruined," like movies, date night, and your sleep schedule.
Julianelle shared these , just ten years apart, showing the normal wear and tear of being a parent:
Now, other parents are joining in his celebration. According to the , Julianelle, who has a seven and two-year-old, got a message from a follower saying she loved his photo and suggested he opened his account for submissions from other parents. And the outpouring of exhausted solidarity quickly came through:
“I’ve gotten a lot more of these than I did of the typical ‘my toddler destroyed something’ memes I was previously receiving! Probably because taking a photo of something your kids destroyed is less of a priority than cleaning it up,” Julianelle tells HuffPost, “And it’s much easier to clean a mess than it is to fix your own face!”
“Obviously, it’s meant to be lighthearted, and no one is seriously blaming their children for the state of their faces or lives, except for me when I seriously blame my kids for the state of my face and my life, which is basically all I do on my blog and Facebook page and Twitter,” he joked.
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