9 photos that show what it really means to be a parent

Raising children is an exciting but difficult adventure. Of course, children are the flowers of life, and nothing compares to the beauty of the birth and growth of a new person, but the hard truth is that daily communication with children is not only sunshine and rainbows. Sometimes it's literally a mess.

9 PHOTOS

1. Our house has 10 rooms…

2. Forgot to close the door to the bathroom.

3. They are not at all embarrassed by what they did to themselves with cars at 5 o'clock in the morning.

4. "My daughter's favorite way to refresh me after a long run on a hot day."

5. "I have a daughter, so I'm always beautiful."

6. My daughter wanted to take a bath.

7. "If anyone's wondering how we're doing, it's my 3-year-old cleaning the potty with my toothbrush."

8. “Mom, I dropped toilet paper in the toilet, but then I washed it.”

9. I went into the bathroom and found that my child was "erasing" the book he found.