A mother tried a cute family photo and it ended badly

Mums always have the best intentions – but sometimes, things don’t work out quite how they imaged.

This is perhaps best illustrated with the case of Sydney King’s mum, who wanted out spell out the word “love” with her children for a family photo.

But instead, they ended up spelling C-*-C-K.

King tweeted:

Oh my gosh we really don’t deserve my mom. All she wanted to do was spell out love in our family pictures. She had no idea

And here's the end result:

Her tweet has been retweeted almost 3,000 times.

It seems Plan A was the safer option:

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