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

2010/03/31

[Parent Hacks] 2 new posts in Parent Hacks

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links for 2010-03-31

Cool Camps (Part 1): 7 Summer Camps So Fun They'll Make You Wish You Were A Kid Again

Two words: Jedi camp. Thanks, Alan!
Tweetage Wasteland : We All Have Photographic Memories

Thoughts on our new digitally-captured lives...do we remember our experiences or just the pictures? By my brilliant and prolific friend, Dave Pell.
Make a paper storage cube out of old shipping boxes

Great for kids' scratc paper. Lovely, smart, useful, and a great use of cardboard that would otherwise go into the recycling bin. Thanks, Darcy!

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Keep the kids busy while grocery shopping: push the cart backwards!

Caron demonstrates her version of the "do what you have to do" method of grocery shopping with two little kids:

I'm an ever-faithful reader and I discovered a hack while grocery shopping the other night. I had both of my young boys (5 years and 1.5 years) in the airplane shopping cart and they were pinching each other and driving me nuts. While trying to navigate a crowded isle, instead of turning the cart around, I pushed it from the front and both boys giggled as I pushed the cart backward through the isles. It may not work every time, but it was enough to distract them from fighting and allowed my husband and I to finish shopping.