Astronaut Mom Calls Home From Space for the First Time

Hahahahaha. Perfection.

My go to response has become, “go ask your father.”

Oh my gosh. 😂 I feel this in my soul.

But also, not quite funny, since this is 2025 and not 1925…The boy is sitting right next to his dad, who is taking no responsibility for ‘the snack’ but also not taking responsibility for protecting his wife’s feelings and highlighting her accomplishments by not correcting the son. So….This is the type of ‘humor’ I no longer find funny.

It would totally funny IF she was a single mom and her son was sitting with the babysitter or alone. With the dad right there? Mildly rage inducing…

Thank you, my response to most “mom humour” is that it wakes up my radical feminist dragon. I want to belong to the group, but the conventional sisterhood needs some schooling.

I agree with you Hannah. It’s “humor” like this which makes me glad not to have kids. Even if moms see this and feel like they are part of a community or feel like they are “seen,” it’s the fact that this is so common a problem (among many, many, many other and bigger reasons) that has put me off procreation.

Agreed/ Not funny in 2025 when it still applies.

To me that is what is supposed to be funny/not funny about it. No matter how awesome the mom is outside of the home, in many instances kids are not all that impressed with it. No matter what she is doing, they still look to mom to do the “mom” things, even when the dad is right there. Perhaps more than funny its supposed to be relatable to the moms of the world doing it all. Like Kath in the comment above, I can certainly related to it!

Who says it’s not supposed to be rage-inducing? To me, it’s that, AND it’s funny, and it makes me feel less alone.

Thats the point of it …..

Oh, I don’t know. My husband is an amazing father who fully pulls more than half his weight both around the house and with our kids, and they STILL do silly things like seek me out while I’m sitting on the toilet to ask me to open their string cheese, while my husband yells from the kitchen “I’m right heeeeeeerrre!!!” I can’t explain exactly why it happens, I just know that it DOES (and at least in my family, is absolutely no fault of my husband’s!) I think this hilarious and adorable and very relatable.

Hannah, I feel you. Most of the time I can laugh at this and shrug it off as a full-time working mom of two boys and a spouse that works just as hard but there’s always that underlying feeling of “what the actual f?” But we’re not perfect and we’ve definitely perpetuated the stereotype without giving it much thought so my kids know I’m usually the food person, the snacks always prepped person, the dinner person, the leftovers person, the lunch packing person. It’s my thing even though my spouse can do it, i just took it over so I think, many times, they just associate me with that activity. They know their other parent is fully capable they just haven’t yet realized that parent can also be associated with that task. I like to think Astronaut mom maybe is the food person when they’re home?

I think that’s part of the point…

Joanna, I saw it the same way you did. My husband fully pulls his weight in parenting and still, my kids look to me first for most needs. I feel like she’s poking fun at the gender norms, maybe in an intentionally rage-inducing way. Also, if we’re trying to steer from gender norms, maybe we ought to consider that the male the child is with is the child’s nanny!