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We skip pajamas. My kids only wear comfy clothes anyway, so there's not much difference to them.
We got IKEA bins in a Kallax instead of a dresser and just sort by long vs short sleeve vs pants. No folding in this house.
We stick the kid toothbrushes in the dishwasher. They always end up using them to 'clean' something, so that kind of restores them for teeth cleaning.
Not so much a hack as a convenience, but my daughter's hair didn't really start growing till she was 15 months, that's a ton of time I didn't have to wrestle stuff into her hair!
I tell my kids to hide when I need 30 seconds to just finish something. Then I go tickle them.
Kroger stores have free fruit for kids while you shop, I think that's the only time my son eats fruit.
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When my kids aren't doing what I ask, I use a British accent. It's terrible but it resets the mood and works a good 80% of the time.
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@hummusgirl: Hahaha, I feel like that would be more effective with DH than with my kids
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@codeitall: We don't fold either. It's a great hack!
I also only have one nice outfit per kid. They wear it for every holiday and family pictures. It's a struggle to get my boys to wear "handsome" clothes so it wasn't worth the expense. They now know what to expect.
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I don't know if this is a hack or if this is just what everyone does but I have found that the best baby toy is just a basket full of random stuff. So on every floor of my house I have a different basket that's stuffed with random lovies, teethers, rattles, small stuffed animals, binkies, etc. I just plunk DS2 (8 months) in front of one and he plays with it for sooo much longer than any of the other larger and flashier baby toys that we have.
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