The Nightmares and Joys of Parenting, Part 3

"QUANTUM SHOT" #472
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Don't show this to your kids, as they might get ideas you'll regret later.

Kids are a joy to raise and a pleasure to behold, as any loving parent would attest. However, together with the moments of hilarity, there are times of sheer exasperation and terror, especially when your kid decides to use your new iPhone for his latest chemistry project launch pad.

So here goes the third installment in our series, documenting unexpected (and often profoundly unwanted) adventures of angelic babies in the real world:

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Not so angelic, and rather more intense kids:

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Shirley Temple, cute as a button:

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Probably taking revenge for this:

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"A Good Seed" in a very bad batch - a painting by Erlend Mork:

And then developing starts (this chart is pretty accurate, and yet somehow creepy... I guess it's the entity in the upper right corner that freaks me out. The thought that I looked exactly like this at 2 months!):

Then worse fears start making their way into child's mind (some imagined... and some are real) -

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The Joys and Nightmares of Parenting

Babies are not chosen, or elected by popular vote. Even if you end up with a little tyrant, we'd still love him (or her) -

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Good way to get some peace and quiet? -

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Here is perhaps how to make your kid to sleep all night without crying:
A Baby Pillow - made by the Zaky company.

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Carry your child in whatever you can find around you:

Like father, like son:

Very dysfunctional family; they never had a chance:

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Wow! Finally, a Perfect Family! -

Even perfect families have their moments:

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Hold tight, son!

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Parenting in sculpture (Yekaterinburg, central train station) -

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High Risk Upbringing:

Another "high risk upbringing", you would not wish upon your child:

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Quick! Don't grab a camera - grab the kid!

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The craziest toys kids get to play with sometimes:

In the same vein as the mutant doll shown above, is this Chernobyl matryoshka:

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... and these psychotic-looking plastic babies:

Good education? -

A t-shirt for immature grownups:

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"Gingervate" your kid! -

Get him a robot buddy (see more of them here) -

Or tell him a crooked "Pinocchio vs. Hamlet" tale:

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How to make the bunch of loud kids to shut up

No comments. We at DRB in no way endorsing such means and are positively appalled at her actions:

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Kids that don't take any chances

It's very sad that children end up in the middle of armed conflicts... But some of them look like they just might fight back: