Extreme Parenting & Wild, Wild Kids!

"QUANTUM SHOT" #657Link - by Avi Abrams

We have not had a funny pictures round-up for a few months, and this one is dedicated to parents... again. Why you ask, are we so impressed by the extreme efforts and solutions of some parents? Because some children are different and require parenting that is in the same league as, say, taming wild animals. So, without further ado -

It's Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad (Parents) and Kids!

(top image: advertisement for "Choco" product in the 1970s, via; bottom left photo via, right ad via)

"The Look":

(images via 1, 2, 3, 4, Shelly Burrows)

Keeping them busy

This picture is sorely in the need of caption:

(image credit: JumpinJack)

Oh Joy! - Mud... Frogs...

(top image sent by Shelly Burrows)

Graduating to more extreme activities:

Here is a game that every warm-blooded boy would enjoy: make them pose as superheroes and let them use anything they can find outside to arm and outfit their characters. At a certain angle, they might even seem like flying! This time however, it's the setup created by photographer Jan Von Holleben (they also have fine art posters and postcards):

(images credit: Jan Von Holleben)

"Vintage Games" and retro-style are always welcome:

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or simply dress them up! -

(images credit: Jan Von Holleben)

and then, by simple image manipulation, turn them into monsters! They will love it -

(see a lot more here)

Awesome toy! You can shave the baby -

Give them a bath.... (seven babies sit to cool down after a baby massage class held for young mothers)

(top image credit: REUTERS/United Photos)

Convoluted talk, with a lot of imaginative loops involved - a Baby Talk?

(image credit: Anna Janosik)

Inventive Parents

Necessity is the mother of invention. "iSuck" and "iParent" doing the mothering part, too -

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These cages actually existed (proof here):

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Have two kids? Make two extra doors (order it from SlamDoors):

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Er... actually, fatherhood is not that glamorous, or slick -

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Children encounter frustration too:

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Scare them... gently

We are not advocating shock-therapy, not at all!.. Only distraction:

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This is going too far -

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I hope this is Photoshopped -

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Anaconda! Playing Mowgli and Kaa? -

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The safest ride in the world! -

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This is even scarier... Sniper bait? -

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The picture above was taken at the end of World War 2 in Amsterdam. Much of the country had been liberated, so a lot of people went out to celebrate on Dam square in Amsterdam. Unfortunately there were still some Germans there (including a sniper) so a celebration turned ugly real quickly when the Germans started firing shots on a gathering of celebrating people. The child was probably too young to realize what is going on.

Some monsters are unexpected, and some are... unintentional:

(images: left via, right: "Where the Wild Things Are" poster)

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The Creepiest Greeting Award:

(image credit: Jen Savage)

or you can put your child into a Monster Stroller and observe his/her bravery:

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Careful with your Halloween costumes:

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Some "monster dresses" are actually quite adorable:

(image credit: Pietro Bellini)

Big Eyes!

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They are irresistible, these huge, sweet, lovable eyes - we are hard-wired to react to this big-eyed sweetness, and so we respond by buying them more candy... again:

(image credit: Koffee)

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Never mind a little "wetness" on the chin. Things are as they should be.

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Big eyes... sometime in the 1970s USSR:

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The secret of beauty in the former USSR? This poster directs: "The Ministry of Food and Perfume Products says: Children are to BRUSH THEIR TEETH!" Period! -