{"id":515,"date":"2008-06-24T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T07:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papabachwani.wordpress.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2008-06-24T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T07:39:15","slug":"parent-hacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2008\/06\/parent-hacks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years, I’ve picked up quite a few tricks from ParentHacks<\/a>.\u00a0 The post that got me absolutely hooked was the one on the benefits of the humble “kitchen timer<\/a>“!<\/p>\n

After I read that post, I promptly ordered us a kitchen timer, and started using it actively for my preschooler.\u00a0 Since then, I’ve come to observe how poor <\/i>a little child’s sense of “time” really is, and how that can be a major cause of stress among parents and their children.<\/p>\n

A simple and elegant solution is the ringing of the timer’s alarm, that helps young ones\u00a0understand just when their “ten minutes” or “half an hour”\u00a0is really up!\u00a0 Now, I use the timer for a hundred different reasons, from buying myself a few minutes to complete a phone conversation, to limiting my child’s screen time.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to give ParentHacks a spin, I suggest you look no further than the excellent summary by ZenHabits on Top 20 Parent Hacks: Tips for Organization, Kid Optimization and Happiness<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Parenting is equal parts skill and art. The skills can be learned well enough. But the art\u2026now there\u2019s the tricky part. We all have to find our own way with our children, and there are times when only another parent\u2019s \u201cI\u2019ve been there\u201d advice can point us in the right direction.<\/p>\n

At Parent Hacks, we swap parenting tips we\u2019ve stumbled on through experience (and sometimes dumb luck), often with a twist of the unconventional or the surprising solution. Parent Hacks is collecting all those hard-earned nuggets of wisdom in the hopes of building the ultimate \u201cback fence\u201d where parents can get real-world advice on the stuff that rarely makes it into the books and mags.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More often than not, the best solution is the simplest one<\/a>, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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