40 Funny Parents Tweets to Get You in the Christmas Spirit

The OP’s tweet taps into that moment of holiday horror that every gingerbread man fears: the first bite. There’s an eerie sense of doom that comes with a toddler’s gleeful decapitation of a cookie, as if it were a tiny, icing-laden effigy of the boogeyman himself.

It’s a festive yet faintly macabre scene that unfolds in countless homes, leaving a trail of cookie crumbs and tiny, sugar-coated smiles in its wake. It’s all fun and games until the gingerbread man loses his head, and then it’s just delicious.