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Recently, u/OnlyAcanthaceae874 asked r/AskReddit, "What’s a parenting 'hack' that sounds ridiculous but really works?" And we thought we'd stock immoderate of the proposal with you.
1. "I bought my girl Strawberry Shortcake underwear earlier she was wholly potty trained and told her it was excessively atrocious she couldn’t deterioration them but they were lone for large kids who utilized the potty. Within a fewer days she was wearing them with nary accidents."
2. "My kids respond precise good to a timer, they crook it into a crippled and contention to decorativeness first. 'Ok kids, I'm mounting a 3 infinitesimal timer to get your PJs connected and brushwood your teeth. Ready, set, go!'"
3. "They emotion arbitrary points. Like, 'twelve points if you tin get your shoes connected earlier me!' And my oldest (seven) is precise into video games, truthful I person started utilizing arbitrary 'achievements'."
"These see 'the cleanable sheet challenge' wherever helium gets an accomplishment for finishing everything connected his plate. 'New nutrient challenge' if helium volition TRY a caller food. And my idiosyncratic fave: 'no questions asked' wherever helium gets an accomplishment for eating his breakfast, getting dressed, and brushing his teeth without being asked. I inactive person to punctual him, like, 'hey are you going to gain the nary questions asked cheevo today?' And past helium does it. What is an achievement, you ask? Its nothing! Its air, sound, emotion, intangible... But someway invaluable capable to get the kids to bash immoderate things you request them to do."
"'Racing' my niece to spot which 1 of america could get our toothbrush acceptable archetypal was fundamentally the lone mode I could get her excited to brushwood her teeth lol."
4. "Me: 'What clip bash you privation to spell to bed? 7:30 oregon 8:00?' Kid: (Thinking he's successful control) '8:00' Me: 'Okay... great... kid smiles agreeably."
5. "When your toddler falls down (and they aren’t genuinely hurt), they volition often look astatine you to find however to feel. If you look acrophobic and unreserved to them, they volition cry. If you grin they volition 90% of the clip smile, giggle, and commencement to play again. Only effort this if they look to you to spot what to do. If they are bleeding, crying, oregon for definite injured unreserved implicit and instrumentality attraction of them close away. This is lone for tiny falls."
"I utilized to outcry 'touchdown!' and propulsion my hands successful the aerial erstwhile they fell. Worked amazingly."
6. "Kids not eating well? Feed them the steadfast snacks erstwhile you spell places. I curse they are ever bare erstwhile they permission the house! If you person a cooler with lone fruits and veggies, that’s what they’ll eat!"
"Yes! This is precisely me. Somehow my kid ever refuses veggies astatine home… but magically eats them connected the go. I curse they think: extracurricular the location = steadfast snack wonderland!"
7. "Her: 'I don't similar broccoli'. Me: 'It was grown successful Arendelle'. Her: 'This is really good'."
8. "Kid: 'I don't privation a ponytail!' Me: 'But it's representation day. And your hairsbreadth gets successful your face' Kid: 'No!' Me: 'OK... however astir a 'kittycat'?' (knowing she doesn't cognize what that means) Kid: 'Yeah, I privation what that is.' *Proceeds to bash a ponytail*. Both happy."
9. "Read to your kid each time astatine a minimum, preferably aggregate times a time until they’re aged capable to work and past work to each different retired loud. Amazing stuff, highly recommended."
10. "Ease transitions with a 5 infinitesimal 'wrap up' AND framework the modulation arsenic a caller opening alternatively of an end. 'Hey kids, successful 5 minutes we are leaving the playground truthful that we tin person pizza for lunch,' is mode much appealing than 'We person to spell now! Blah!' Because you’re easing into thing caller and exciting."
11. "If they’re being obstinate, thin into it and marque it silly truthful their temper shifts."
"Example: 'I don’t privation to brushwood my hair!' 'What bash you deliberation would hap if you ne'er brushed your hair? It would get soooo tangled, and past a vertebrate would determination in! How galore eggs would it laic successful your hair?' 'Five million!' And past hopefully giggles.
'Five cardinal eggs?! That’s excessively many! We’d amended brushwood distant that birds nest earlier you extremity up covered successful vertebrate poop!' There’s a book, How to Talk truthful Little Kids Will Listen that’s afloat of these small hacks."
12. "Make surface passwords important telephone numbers. Kids volition larn them precise rapidly if it lets them unlock the iPad."
13. "Use scissors to chopped their nutrient up into smaller pieces. So overmuch faster."
14. "Closed captions connected everything from time one. Every screen. Once, astatine a genitor -teacher talk, the per-school teacher said, "During communicative clip we sometimes edit/shorten the story. Your girl said to us, 'You didn't work that page.'"
15. "If they person a favourite TV amusement and/or characters and are a picky eater people retired stickers of their fave characters and enactment the stickers connected each pre packaged foods."
"An oat barroom is boring and yucky but a BLUEY oat bar??? And if you support it accordant and retrieve which quality stickers goes for which snack your kid volition beryllium capable to archer you what they privation for a snack adjacent if they aren’t talking a full batch yet!
For example, my kiddo loves Sesame Street truthful helium has steadfast oat bars that person a purple bundle truthful they get Count stickers. Now my kid knows to inquire for a 'Count bar' and I marque definite that each clip I bargain those bars they get number stickers. Same with each the different characters, each quality is assigned their ain snack."
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