Being a parent is difficult, and can sometimes feel as if you’re navigating the ocean without a map. Each day a new challenge arises, probably one that you hadn’t seen coming. So it helps when you can learn from other people’s mistakes, and from other people’s genius ideas.
Here we’ve listed 50 of the most genius parenting hacks that can help you make it through the maze that is being responsible for a whole child, without going completely insane!
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Wipe clean
It’s always when you’ve just put all of the painting aprons in the wash, on the line, or into a box in the playroom that your little cherub gets their next genius art idea into their head. One that can’t possibly wait.
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So, if you can’t near to see another shirt ruined by Jackson Pollock-inspired poster paint, plastic wrap is your friend. Smooth it onto your child’s top, and then peel off when the masterpiece has been completed!