Crayon Masterpieces Our Readers’ Kids Made on Walls

Every parent has come home to a wall that has been improved. We asked you to share the best examples, and honestly, some of them belong in a gallery.

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Field research for a future joke.

The committee has reviewed your joke.

Emergency snack break.

Group photo, one person blinked.

After: humbled.

Before: full of confidence.

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Notes From the Negotiating Table

Parenting is ninety percent negotiation and ten percent looking for the other shoe. These are field notes from the front line.

• Never agree to “just one more” anything
• Bedtime is a suggestion, apparently
• The quiet room is the dangerous room

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

Hang in there. Nap time is coming, eventually, for somebody.

A quick note on how this post came together: the idea arrived in our tips inbox, survived two editorial meetings, one argument about whether it was actually funny, and a vote that was decided by the office cat walking across the keyboard. We cleaned it up, checked every detail, and added only the jokes we could defend in front of our mothers.