We've all heard that having children changes your life completely. And while some new parents are in denial about this in the beginning, it will only take a few days before they realize they will be posting hundreds of photos of their baby a day on Instagram. And if they need a reminder of how much fun they used to have before deciding to start a family, all they have to do is scroll down their feed and relive their best non-kid moments. That is when one blogger makes it easier by running an Instagram account called Got Toddlered which is dedicated to all the effects children have on their once-cool parents through pictures. Keep reading because you might see yourself in one of these poor souls.
Meet Mike Julianelle, a dad with a platform on his popular parenting blog, Dad and Buried. Mike also runs a popular Instagram account called Got Toddlered, where parents share before and after they became parents to show how their kids "ruined" them. These side-by-side photos are the real-life representation of the big shift everyone warns you about, and they're sure as funny as they are painfully accurate. So buckle up and enjoy all of the photos that demonstrate that, regardless of who you were before having children, parenting WILL bring you down. Enjoy!
Meet Mike Julianelle, a dad with a platform on his popular parenting blog, Dad and Buried. Mike also runs a popular Instagram account called Got Toddlered, where parents share before and after they became parents to show how their kids "ruined" them. These side-by-side photos are the real-life representation of the big shift everyone warns you about, and they're sure as funny as they are painfully accurate. So buckle up and enjoy all of the photos that demonstrate that, regardless of who you were before having children, parenting WILL bring you down. Enjoy!
#1. From dressed to the nines to asleep by nine:
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#2. There's no make-up or pretty dresses anymore. Just stickers.
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#3. From little black dress to big white mess:
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#4. From cool dad to step-stool dad:
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#5. From playmates to play dates
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#6. Chocolate milk tastes better anyways!
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#7. CHUG CHUG CHUG!
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#8. You can still party…it’s just a different kind of party.
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#9. His drinking buddies have changed.
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#10. From rave to slave. From waiting for the beat to drop to waiting for the milk to come in:
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#11. From Snow White to 'Grumpy' after three kids:
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#12. Same milkshake, different cocktail.
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#13. "Mum down. I repeat, Mum down."
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#14. Daddy's got new priorities now:
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#15. From pimpin’ to simpin’:
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#16. That grin says it all.
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#17. From "I'm on a boat!" to "I AM a boat!'
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#18. He learned to share.
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#19. From duckface to YUCKface.
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#20. He’s not smiling now. And look at the kid playing dumb!
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#21. Started at the bottom now we wipin' 'em.
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#22. I’m not entirely sure what he’s waiting for in the left pic but I know he wants to know what he got in the right one.
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#23. No matter who you were before kids, parenting WILL take you down:
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#24. Jackpot!
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#25. Well...
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#26. "For the love of god Greg did you leave the door unlocked again?"
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#27. Lastly, he's still surrounded by pretty girls:
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