"All parents want is for our kids to go to bed so we can watch a show with bad words in it and eat the hidden snacks” is a jocular parenting saying that was posted on Twitter by Simon Holland on September 15, 2015. The saying was posted again on Twitter by Holland on January 29, 2019.
“Parent: ‘All I want is my kids to go to sleep so I can watch shows with bad words and eat hidden snacks’” was posted on Twitter by ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes on March 14, 2018. “‘All I want is for my kids to go to sleep so I can watch shows with bad words and eat hidden snacks.’ ~Every Parent” was posted on Twitter by The Ruthless Crafter on March 6, 2020.
The parenting saying has been printed on many images.
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Simon Holland
@simoncholland
All parents want is for our kids to go to bed so we can watch a show with bad words in it and eat the hidden snacks.
9:50 PM · Sep 15, 2015·Twitter for iPhone
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Stephanie Magruder
@semagruder
All parents want is for our kids to go to bed so we can watch a show with bad words in it and eat the hidden snacks. #parentingproblems
10:49 PM · May 13, 2016·Twitter Web App
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King Cope
@HumbleAssNigga
All parents live for kids to go to sleep so they can watch a tv with bad words & eat the hidden snacks. Face savouring food #Parenting
12:45 AM · Sep 18, 2016·Twitter for iPhone
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ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes
@TheChuChuTV
Parent: ‘All I want is my kids to go to sleep so I can watch shows with bad words and eat hidden snacks.’ RT, if you are this !parent 
#Parenting #NewMom #NewDad
4:00 AM · Mar 14, 2018·Hootsuite
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Coffee Mama Hot beverage
@snoozyjavamama
All we want is for our kids to go to bed so we can watch a show with bad words in it & eat the hidden snacks.
11:52 PM · Aug 16, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
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Full Time Baby
@FULLonbaby
All parents want is for kids to go to bed so that we can watch Netflix and eat our hidden snacks #mom #momblogger #parenting
9:01 AM · Aug 29, 2018·Twitter Web Client
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Simon Holland
@simoncholland
All parents want is for our kids to go to bed so we can watch a show with bad words in it and eat the hidden snacks.
8:45 PM · Jan 29, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
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BOMBAYSAPPHIREFIQ_18ST
@FIQMURAD_18
All parents want is for our kids to go to bed so we can watch shows with bad words in it and eat the hidden snacks!!!!!
8:03 PM · Feb 29, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
The Ruthless Crafter
@ruthlesscrafter
“All I want is for my kids to go to sleep so I can watch shows with bad words and eat hidden snacks.” ~Every Parent
12:02 PM · Mar 6, 2020·Hootsuite Inc.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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