Millions of words on tens of thousands of blog posts by earnest and frustrated and sentimental and hilarious bloggers have already been spilled about parenting but our community is able to describe the curiously maddening yet glorious job of parenthood in just three words. We are kind of fond of “Life of Dad” but here are our favorite 3-word synopsis of parenting from the Life of Dad moms and dads.

Dusty Rose Molnar: Eat, poop, sleep.

Marie Arnol: Lots of fun.

Elisabeth Maria: pick your battles.

Tom O’Hara: Bloody hard work.

Kate Fieldhouse: GO TO SLEEP!

Matt Hatfield: Nothing more important.

David Fraga: In the words of the tank crew of the movie Fury, “best job ever”.

Joseph Moore: A beautiful disaster.

Shannon Kalmarzi: What’s that smell?

Life of Dad Parenting in 3 words

Tracey Vanxay: Don’t do that!!

Bryony Hartley: The best adventure.

Angella Hicks: Never alone again.

Mallory Wintercorn: Don’t repeat that.

Eric Scarr: Wonderfully terrifying experience.

Sarah Jackson: Exhausting, overwhelming, beautiful!!

Marie Beglane: Laughter improvisation and negotiation.

Dustin Dirks: Sticky electroshock therapy.

Only two words needed for Ashley Jimenez: Epic Tornado.

Stephen Bentley: Movies on repeat.

Bill Lukawy says what many guys are thinking:

Drink More Beer!!!

How would you describe parenthood in just 3 words? Let us know on the Life of Dad Facebook page!

*Flickr photo by Ken Bosma, shared under Creative Commons license.