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Post by RunsforWineandCarbs on Sept 18, 2017 13:39:11 GMT -6
This Parenting Hack article has inspired this post.... What are your current parenting hacks....and go
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Post by RunsforWineandCarbs on Sept 18, 2017 13:40:00 GMT -6
I have shared this one before but it still works.
When the kids don't want to eat what I make for dinner. I put my food on their plate and their food on my plate - they always want what I am having and will eat everything on my plate.
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Post by RunsforWineandCarbs on Sept 18, 2017 13:40:36 GMT -6
Kids fighting over 1 toy. I tell the oldest to pick a new toy and pretend it's the best - 2nd kid now wants that toy and there's no more fighting.
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Post by CestLaVie on Sept 18, 2017 14:24:34 GMT -6
DD can be picky sometimes but if I tell DS to go over the top pretending he likes supper, she'll eat it. (Also he gets so wrapped up that she is listening to him he keeps eating and doesn't realize he didn't want to eat it either lol).
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Post by fierymama on Sept 18, 2017 14:27:22 GMT -6
Toys in which batteries have died are "broken" and usually just get put away or played with without the sounds. Of course DS soon learned that asking his grandpa to "fix" his toys made them work again.
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Post by taketheshot on Sept 18, 2017 14:36:11 GMT -6
Kids fighting over 1 toy. I tell the oldest to pick a new toy and pretend it's the best - 2nd kid now wants that toy and there's no more fighting. That's sneaky... I like it.
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Post by momololo on Sept 18, 2017 16:07:00 GMT -6
I'm not sure this is a hack but I keep a shoe box of kid socks by the back door so I'm not always running back upstairs to grab socks for them before we go somewhere.
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Post by easternshoregirl on Sept 18, 2017 19:55:59 GMT -6
When E starts biting or pinching or being really aggressive, we go the WWDTD? route....what would Daniel Tiger do? He then will start giving hugs and kisses to the "victim" instead! ETA-DH and I do that when he is being rough with us but of course we are also working on teaching him why that is not ok.
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Post by jedi on Sept 18, 2017 20:35:10 GMT -6
Kids fighting over 1 toy. I tell the oldest to pick a new toy and pretend it's the best - 2nd kid now wants that toy and there's no more fighting. This is similar to how s1 would steal toys as a toddler. He's bring over another toy, that kid would get excited about it then he'd steal the toy they were playing with. 😂
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Post by jess213 on Sept 19, 2017 2:43:46 GMT -6
Parents of older kids: if bedtime is still a good 30 minutes away but you're running on empty, set the clocks 25 minutes ahead. Works every time
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Post by librarylady on Sept 19, 2017 11:06:55 GMT -6
If bath time is a struggle, try introducing something novel. The first time she started protesting bath, we began to have bubble baths and that bought us a good couple months. Then she went through another bout of resisting the bath so now we do these color tablets that turn the bathwater a different color. We make a big deal about wondering what color she is going to pick. She puts one tablet in when we start running the bath, and then she gets to pick one more once she is in the bath and we get to see what those two colors mixed looks like.
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Post by librarylady on Sept 19, 2017 11:07:47 GMT -6
I'm not sure this is a hack but I keep a shoe box of kid socks by the back door so I'm not always running back upstairs to grab socks for them before we go somewhere. Oh I'm going to be stealing this one!
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Post by CestLaVie on Sept 19, 2017 15:32:46 GMT -6
librarylady, my mom lent DS her snorkle set and that has bought us 2+ months at this point haha. In case you need a future idea haha
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