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ChatGPT Prompts for Exhausted Parents
AI is taking everyone else’s job, so why not force it to do ours?
3 min readSep 26, 2023
- Give me step-by-step instructions to send my kids to bed without any meltdowns.
- You are a one-year-old. Tell me where you might have left your milk-filled sippy cup.
- Suggest five poop jokes that will make my eight-year-old laugh so she’ll forget that I promised to tell her where babies come from.
- Produce a detailed plan for preventing my two-year-old from removing his own soiled diapers.
- Suggest best practices for getting my picky eater to try tonight’s lasagna without throwing a fit.
- Using a table, present information about why my husband should schedule a vasectomy ASAP.
- Suggest three ways to motivate my kids to put their dirty clothes directly in the hamper instead of on the floor beside it.
- Formulate three ways to convince my clingy kid he doesn’t need to follow me into the bathroom.
- Give me ten alternative ways to say, “Because I said so,” when my six-year-old asks why he can’t wear the same Super Mario shirt to school ten days in a row.
- Using persuasive marketing tactics, create a strategy for convincing my three-year-old to potty train himself.
- Produce a script for talking to my seven-year-old about his unhealthy relationship with Roblox.
- Research sleep training and explain why the hell babies aren’t born knowing how to sleep.
- Propose ten creative ways to tell my five-year-old she really needs to start wiping her own butt.
- Produce ten ideas to prevent my four-year-old from eating her own boogers.
- Formulate a list of ten must-see TV shows that premiered in the past four years for an adult who has only seen Cocomelon and Ms. Rachel since becoming a parent.
- Write an email to the principal asking her for reimbursement for the Taylor Swift concert I had to miss in order to fill out all the back-to-school forms.
- Act like an arachnologist to explain to my bug-obsessed 9-year-old why she shouldn’t keep a free-range spider farm in her bedroom or anywhere else in the house.
- Suggest three bedtime story ideas. Must include a farting unicorn. Do not use any monsters in the story, or I swear I will haunt you when I die from lack of sleep.
- Give me five ideas for what I should do if I think my child is a psychopath and not just an opinionated three-year-old.
- Make a pie chart with the pros and cons of running away from my family to live the rest of my life on a deserted island.
- Explain to me in layman’s terms why, even with all the chaos of parenting, I’d still choose this life over and over again.
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