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This is Honest Toddler

 

 

 

 

 

Not since the deliciously wicked Suri’s Burn Book has a blog so completely taken the social media world by storm.

The Honest Toddler is a scathing, brilliant, laugh-out-loud blog  where the diabolical musings of a three-year-old toddler (who has the intellect of Einstein and the warmth of Idi Amin) are shared in a completely adult way.

Honest Toddler tweets from @HonestToddler. Here’s a taste…

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You don’t need to be a parent to get a kick out of it. And if you are a parent this blog will confirm what you long suspected: we’re on their payroll.

This from Yahoo:

Honest Toddler — who in addition to having Twitter and Facebook pages also has a personal blog — uses an uncanny adult voice to describe his (or her) motivation for every toddler transgression from kicking daddy out of the “big bed” to what will happen if mommy dares to give him a cookie in broken pieces.

And the best part is the posts are designed to be a de facto advice manual for parents to help them better serve their “beautiful, gifted children.”

“Maybe it will help to think about why you decided to become a parent. Most likely you were bored and looking for someone to serve. Now that you have the opportunity to make your life mean something, do your best. Wake up with a smile on your face and say this fourteen times, ‘Broken food is disgusting, when I serve it I look a little ugly,’” writes the little dictator.

Here’s a recent blog post the Honest Toddler wrote about the Super Nanny:

Dear Super Nanny,

Super? So you think you’re an action hero. And what is your power exactly? Tearing families apart?

Since your show started and like a pregnant spider exploded into countless demonic spin-offs, children around the world have been suffering from your ridiculous and terrible ideas. The fact that parents are starting sentences off with “Well, on Super Nanny…” to excuse the creation of time out spots and restrictions on big bed time only adds evidence to my claim.

You walk around with that wool cloak looking like the manager of Hogwarts. I’m not scared of you. The day you come into my home expect Armageddon because I’m going to bring it. Nanny, you don’t know my life. You don’t know my situation. Were you at my birth? Are you my midwife? No. So you don’t know what I need.

 

Your turn now. If you were an Honest Toddler, what would you say?

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  1. Mandy

    Ok, I’m paranoid. This is the third time a comment of mine hasn’t been published when I’ve not agreed with the prevailing sentiments of the article and comments.

    This time I replied to Lucinda agreeing i don’t find the honest toddler that funny. I won’t say exactly what I said (and for the life of me can’t understand why it wouldn’t have followed the rules just like my previous AWOL comments) as it probably won’t get up again. The gist (I thought) of my comment was that I wanted to find The Toddler funny but I couldn’t and that humour is subjective… I would love to know what went wrong?

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    • Lucy Ormonde

      Hey Mandy,
      We’re still getting a little used to our new comments policy, sometimes things get stuck in spam etc.
      Let me look into it for you
      - Lucy

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      • Mandy

        Hey thanks Lucy, that’s all I need to know. I thought it might be a glitch :)

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    • Lucinda

      It’s all good, I’ve seen ya Mandy! The other thing that bugs me is the photograph that has been chosen… it is cute, but the kid is about 18 months old, not 3. I think the honest toddler should have been between one and two years old for it to fit – a child that isnt speaking yet, like Look Who’s Talking. 3 year olds have a voice already. If they aren’t speaking by 3 they have speech/development problems.

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  2. oopsyboops

    Oh I love this. Reminds me of what Miss C said the other night while we were at ikea (tip, when you are in the middle of ikea there are no toilets, and no easy way out. It is a looooong way out)
    Miss C: I want to go home
    Me: hhhmmmmm yes just looking at a few more things
    Miss C: No you are touching things. Stop touching things
    Me: hmmmmm (absent mindedly fondling some nice fabric or other)
    Miss C: STOP TOUCHING THINGS!!!!!!
    Had me laughing all the way to the carpark
    H

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  3. Lucinda

    Am I the only one who really doesn’t find this particularly funny? It is not even accurate – the HT inhabits characteristics and behaviours that are not even on par with a normal 3 year old let alone a gifted one. There was one blog about waking up and mum coming to tuck him back in his CRIB every 1.5hrs. Really, in a crib at 3? Waking up every 1.5hrs for milk at 3yrs? Honestly it would have been more likely to make me laugh if it sounded real.

    Also how can it possibly be a defacto guide for parents with gifted children when it is written by an adult? Maybe I’m just grumpy today, but it just can’t see what is hilarious about it.

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    • theoriginalpinny

      Lucinda, someone has given a thumbs up to this comment so maybe you’re not the only one.
      But I have to point out: It is a joke. It’s funny. It is humour. It is lighthearted.
      Anyone with a toddler or who has had a toddler gets it.
      HT is not gifted – just like the many many toddlers whose parents claim that they are gifted.
      And for lots of 3 year olds who still night wake – for myriad reasons – it is all too real for their parents.
      Mia has already had the debate with us about what a normal child is. Maybe you missed that one?

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      • Lucinda

        They don’t wake every hour and half though. That’s what infants do.

        I work with children 3-4 years old so I know exactly what the range of typical development is. I just think this humour misses more than it hits.

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    • Christy

      My son is almost 3, and he’s still in cot. And will be until he asks to get out!

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  4. Anonymous

    As usual I can’t play the auto play or scroll through the pictures here on mama mia. Despite numerous emails which noone has answered I still have no idea why. It’s so frustrating as I miss out on all the good stuff. Can anyone help? Anyone out there from mama mia staff…anyone…?

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    • Mia

      We’re here! What browser are you using and have you hard refreshed?
      Email nat@mamamia.com.au and tell her I sent you. Lets fix this!

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      • Anonymous

        Thanks I’ve sent the email hope it helps!

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    • Amandarose

      Sometimes you need to update your browser or ipad/iPhone operating system if your using those.

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    • husband and father of 4

      you may need to clear your cache AND flush all the cookies from mama-mia,
      (the procedure is different for each browser so check the help section of your browser for how to do that)

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  5. husband and father of 4

    Instead of me chucking spoonfuls of the stuff all over the dining room how about you give the damn cat the roast beef mush, and let me have these tasty crunchy kibbles!

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  6. BrunswickMum

    I loved the one where he said that “if you are dawdling at the top of the slide with a queue of 5 kids behind you, expect to be kicked in the back #justsaying” , brilliance!

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  7. theoriginalpinny

    I heart and adore this
    total
    absolute

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  8. Dragon girl

    Thank you so much for this. Laughing myself stupid while sitting on my toddler’s bedroom floor waiting for him to go to sleep. He keeps saying “what’s that noise”?

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  9. Donna M

    OMG I Love this kid!!!!!
    I have been following him for months!
    I love getting an email and new blog posts.
    Having a toddler of my own and survived a previous 2 already I completely understand the HT language and logic.

    My favourite personal toddler moment would have to be the time my now 7 year old poured a kilo bag of flour into the ground heating vent, somehow managing to not make enough mess to notice the evidence and then placing the grill back perfectly. Cue a few days later and the heat being turned on and the fan in the heater blowing plain flour through out my loung and living rooms, classic!

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  10. wanderer83

    I love the honest toddler twitter feed. I don’t have kids but after being a kid myself and watching my brothers 4 kids I totally get the humour. My mum is just like the Honest Toddler’s grandma with her grandkids. Always stepping in to save the day and spoil the grandkids.

    Also, who hasn’t had a day like Honest Toddler when he says “i’d rather cry than walk!”

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  11. ozinuk

    I follow a couple of hundred people on twitter…. but honest toddler is totally my favourite (and I’m a late twenties singleton). LOVE!

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  12. Rob McD

    I think the honest toddler is so funny because it’s all just so true. They are seriously brilliant observations by the little tacker of the crazy things we do as parents…just love it.

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    • donna m

      one of my fave posts is when he tries to use the space time continuim to explain how a 10 minute car sleep = 2 hours of bed sleep.
      Brilliant!

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  13. Lulu

    Hah, this is like Baby Stewie from Family Guy.

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