Check out these 24 brilliant tips for young parents (parenting hacks) in English that will make the process of raising your little ones easier!
On the meme: Use cardboard to stop a “car fight” like this brilliant dad.
Parenting hacks, tricks and tips
They say that Facebook is a waste of time. Sometimes maybe so, but sometimes you can find something interesting there. Recently, I found brilliant in my opinion parenting “hacks” or brilliant ideas (tricks) or tips (tips) on how to deal with your little ones.
Even if you’re not a parent yet, they can come in handy when handling siblings or friends’ kids!
Besides the cardboard box in the car as above, what other parenting hacks do English-speaking – and other – parents have for us?
24 English tips for young parents (parenting hacks).
- It’s Not Medicine, It’s Pepsi
(It’s not a drug, it’s a Pepsi.)
Let’s just hope that the reverse placebo effect doesn’t work!
- Metal Dad Lvl 80
As they say “no ball, without heavy metal”, although the lettering on my dad’s jacket is more punk! 😉
Well, and respect for the earmuffs for the kid!
- Keep Your Toddler Busy By Letting Them Paint The Fence With Water
In English, ” child” colloquially is kid. However, there are more words: baby is an infant, while toddler is a young child who is just learning to walk.
Brilliant advice for young parents – not only the kid has something to do, but also when he gets stained with “paint”, it will dry without a trace and will not stain clothes!
You can also add food coloring (food coloring) to the water , it doesn’t stain, but gives color!
- Use A Fitted Sheet To Keep The Sand Out At The Beach
Just why go to the beach, if not to swim in the sand!
One mother to this question wrote back like this:
- Because about 25% of kids under 2 hate touching sand and getting it stuck to their hand or feet and another 25% just freaking want to eat everything they see, including sand. The other 25% cry hysterically if a piece of sand ends up on their freaking snack. It you have one of the other 25%, you’re plain lucky!
- Recycle Old Cot Into A Craft Or Work Spot For Your Kids
(Transform an old crib into a craft or work space for your children)
- Hide Your Candies In Frozen Beans Bag
(Hide your candyin a bag of frozen beans)
They won’t expect that!
The method is also said to work for greedy husbands and wives! 🙂
- Put A Bean Filled Glove On Your Baby’s Back When You Want Your Kids To Feel Loved, But You’re Too Tired
In addition, you can also briefly heat beans, rice or some other grains in the microwave!
- Baby Head Protector
English is a very ambiguous language, especially in titles like here. We can consider it Baby-Head Protector meaning “ Baby Head Protector ” or equally well Baby Head-Protector “ Baby-Head Protector “.
Don’t worry, bee happy!
- Leave Your Kids With Their Creativity In The Empty Box
Think inside the box! 🙂
The English idiom to think outside the box means ” to think in a creative way. The joke here is that creativity literally happens inside the box!
- Color Their Routine And Teach Time Management
Color their daily schedule and teach time management
In English, daily routine means a plan, a schedule for the day.
Time to (do) homework
Time to play
Time for a bath
Family/dinner time
Time “for bed” (bedtime)
Punishment if not in bed
[See also Good time of day to learn times of the day!]
- Put Stickers On Your Kid’s Shoes To Teach Them To Put Them On The Right Feet
Put stickers on your child’s shoes to teach them (how) to put them on the right feet
Of course, stickers won’t last too long, but with a bright sole, drawing with a marker can give an even better effect!
- Make A Table Hammock With A Bedsheet For Your Kids
I would like one myself! As would certainly many a domestic dog and cat!
- Turn a Coffee Cup Lid Into A Drip Catcher
Turn the lid from a (disposable) coffee mug into a catcher for (dripping) drops
Next time I think I’ll use it myself!!!
- Detangle Doll’s Hair With Dish Soap And Hair Conditioner
Moms advise forgoing dish liquid if the doll is not very dirty, and instead also use fabric softener.
- Give Your Kids Controllers That Are Not Hookep Up. They Will Play Like This For Hours
Evil itself! 😉
- Use Toilet Paper Rolls To Create A Garage For Toy Cars
Best of all, the kid can construct such a garage for resorcery by himself – or together!
- Keep Baby Still During Photoshoot By Using Dad As A Prop
Apparently, professional photographers always hide the parent somewhere out of frame so that the child comes out nicely in the photo.
- Starting In Kindergarten, Put Your Child’s Graduation Year On A Large T-Shirt And Take A Picture With The Same T-Shirt Every Year To Watch The Child Growing Up
Starting with kindergarten, write the year of your child’s graduation on a large T-shirt and take a picture with the same shirt each year to see how your child grows up
Worse if your child doesn’t pass any class! 🙂 But nowadays it is probably not practically possible anymore….
Well, you can also always put the year the kid will be eighteen on the shirt.
- When You Can’t Find Your Glasses Or Charger Just Make A Hunting Game For Your Kid To Help You
When you can’t find your glasses or charger, just arrange a game of hunt for your child to help you (find them)
One Internet user wrote:
- Ok I need to do this for all the items I’ve lost somewhere in my home. Can I borrow someone’s kid?
To which another mom wrote back:
- Did you lose yours too?
Although, truth be told, the baby may just be not only the solution, but more importantly the reason why we can’t find our stuff at home!
- Use A Fan To Inflate Your Children’s Bed Fort
Use a fan to inflate a fortress of a child’s bed
Parents can also use this ingenious invention to…. hide from the child!
- Put Colorful Glow Sticks In Your Kid’s Bathtub To Make Him Feel Like Jedi.
And then you and your husband or wife can have a rave party in the bathroom!
- No Bathtub? Here’s The Solution: Baby Pool In The Shower Cabin. It’s Also Handy When Travelling .
It is important that the inflatable pool is flexible enough to fit the shape of the shower stall.
- BBQ Dad’s Parenting Hack
What did the grilling dad figure out?
And also how nicely they matched the shorts!!!
And finally, a male parenting hack, or something for the ladies! 😉
- Inventive Dad Of The Day
- Wife Beater / Baby Seater – Wife Beater / Baby Seater🙂
The best advice for young, old and parents-to-be? Learn English!
Kids now have a lot of English at school. If you want to be able to keep up with their development, to be able to help them with their homework, as a responsible parent you also need to know English! And if you want to maintain their respect – you need to know English better than them!
And the language not used is gone!
Therefore, if you want to brush up on your English, or start learning from scratch at all, I invite you to take a simple and fun Speakingo adult English course!
Learning here consists 100% of conversation in English, while you can read about grammar on the texts on my blog. This way you effectively use the leftover time you have left in between raising the next generation!
Anyway, it’s best to see for yourself or by yourself if you like this method of learning English. You get the first week of learning – on your computer or on the mobile app – for free and without any obligation!
My advice? Sign up for Speakingo’s English course!
Do you want to understand the English? Start talking like them!
Tips for young parents in English (English text) are from the Bored Panda website. Individual photos were taken by: Jake White, bsurfn2day, Decestor, macshona, Team Johnson, alittlelearningfortwo.blogspot.lt, FreddyJackson69, amazon, berrysweetbaby, onecreativehousewife, joyfulabode.com, Tricia, somecallmemike, Sarah, ruby1508, happyhomefairy, fjordlilie, ladbabyofficial, malleeman.
Did you like these tips for young parents in English (parenting hacks)? Or do you have some other hacks, tips and tricks? Be sure to share in the comments with other parents!
