We’ve found it. The funny, down-to-earth parenting Instagram we all need in our lives.
Simon Hooper, aka father of daughters, is the father of four girls – two one-year-old twins, a six-year-old and a nine-year-old.
His funny, sometimes stressful, and always self-depreciating account, which sees him being outnumbered and juggling the demands of his four daughters, has gained Simon 500k plus followers online.
And his captions have won the hearts of Instragrammers everywhere.
Guy Sebastian on the guilt of switching off on I Don’t Know How She Does It.
In a recent post, Simon wrote about the ‘aroma’ your house gets once you have children. You know the one.
“When you become parents, you don’t notice it, but your house gradually takes on a new aroma. it’s only when guests come round, their faces contort & they ask whether you’d had a fish curry with a side of old ham for dinner, washed down with milk 2 weeks past its use by date, do you realise that you now live with the scent of ‘odour de baby ass’ he wrote.
“That said, once and while you come across a natural disaster that makes your nose invert and die. I walked into the twins room today and found this offending article next to an open nappy bin. She smelt like a old pork chop found in a drain – upon removal, she seemed blissfully unaware that she was being lifted by her dungarees and carried on stripping the silcone off a bottle of old milk I’d not cleared up.”
And it seems the parents of Instagram agreed with him.
“Omg thanks for making my day, every time you post lol glad I’m not the only parent who feels exactly like you do in all your post !!! Parenthood at its finest,” wrote one person.
“Our car smelt like that – one of our little darlings spilt milk in the back and never said anything – it was summer and two days later when we went to use car again ….it made us heave!!!!!” added another.
Simon tackles all the big issues of parenting through his Instagram posts from sex education to, well, what to do when your one-year-old twins put everything they can find in the toilet.
Listen to Guy Sebastian: I don’t know how HE does it.
Simon’s wife, Clemmie, also has an Instagram account called mother_of_daughters.
This family is just too damn cute!