Genius Parenting Hacks That Make Life With Kids So Much Easier

Tin Foil River

Can't afford a big backyard or fancy pool during the summer? Don't worry, you can buy a few rolls of aluminum foil and spend hours splashing around in the sun anyway. By making a tin foil river, little kids will have a blast making their own streams, floating down paper boats, and filling the bottom with rocks, just like a real stream. Just plug in your hose and let it go!

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The More You Know

  • Next time you oversalt a soup, toss in a few wedges of raw apple or potato. Simmer for 10 minutes and discard the wedges to get the flavor back to normal.
  • A Swiffer Sweeper floor mop is useful for more than just cleaning hard floors. Use it to dust interior walls and trim, too! Attach a dry cloth to the rectangle end and press it along walls and trim.
  • Garage floors are puddle prone: springtime floods, melting ice from tires, you name it. You can keep that water away from your tools and toys with a dam made of expanding foam.
  • If you know you'll need to bake with brown sugar soon and it's too hard to use, stick a piece of bread in with the sugar overnight and leave the two in a sealed plastic bag.
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