An Ignoble Experiment: [Parent Hacks] 2 new posts in Parent Hacks

2008/09/22

[Parent Hacks] 2 new posts in Parent Hacks

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Take advantage of television trance to serve vegetables

The beauty of Jamie's hack is that it encourages healthy snacking while not filling up the kids before dinner.

Like most kids, mine go into a glassy-eyed fugue state when the TV is on. Then they immediately begin calling out, "Mommy, I'm hungry!" Since their prime watching hours occur between 3 and 5pm (while I'm scrambling to check homework, unload the dishwasher, fold laundry, make lunches for the next day, and figure out what in the world is for dinner), I put a platter of raw vegetables in between them on the couch. They almost always complain about my snack selection. And they almost always devour it.

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Parent Hacks admin: A note to email subscribers, and a little whining about my daily link roundup

Liz wrote to me wondering if there was a way to get her daily Parent Hacks email update on the same day the posts go up. Right now, the email update arrives the next morning, which is too late for her to grab Amazon Friday Sale finds. I'm doing a little tinkering with the settings in the hopes of speeding things up. (Did you know you can get Parent Hacks updates via email? See "Get free updates" in the left-hand sidebar on the website.)

But no amount of tinkering has gotten my daily link roundup working, which is very disappointing. I love passing along the links you send me -- and my Delicious daily blog post thingy made that so easy. Hopefully it will magically reappear, but until then, I'll be hand-doing my link roundup. It won't appear as often, but it will appear, so keep sending me those Parenthacker-worthy links!