Parents are just like Batman - they save the day and night like it's no big deal. While it's difficult to be parents to young children, these mums and dads are not just street smart but also home smart. From putting their kids to sleep to mastering their pigtails, parents just might be the real superheroes
Getting children to bed is the hardest job for a parent. A dad once had the brightest idea when his daughter would create a ruckus every night before bed. He played an old New Year’s Eve countdown tape at 8 pm which would count to midnight to convince the kid that it's 12 am. This didn’t just make the kid ecstatic but also made her think it's an actually midnight and she has to go to bed.
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A parent often has to sacrifice his or her alone time just so they can spend time with their kids. But this parent had a marvellous idea to do both. This mom tied a long rope as her child rode the swing while she lounged on the patio with an iced tea. Now that's what we call a multi-tasker.
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While moms are basically magicians they often go wrong in style. But you need to give them full brownie points for effort. This mom, for Instance, wanted to give her daughter a fancy hairdo. She was asked to give her daughter the half-up, half-down for a school event and she came up with a rather curious version. Have a look.
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Free Internet really is a privilege for many. This parent, for instance, made her kids do chores for accessing their WiFi account. She left a note asking the kids to clean the kitchen and send a picture of the clean kitchen to her in return for which she'd give them the WiFi password. She even took precautions so that the kids can't use any of the earlier photos. That just might have been the best parenting all.
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Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel once planked his kids into thinking he had eaten all their Halloween candy. The kids had collected copied amounts of candy on Halloween and the next morning Jimmy told them that there was no candy left for them as he had eaten them all. His act was so convincing that his kids began crying and cursing their father for a long time. Until Jimmy finally told them the truth.
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Kids never really like eating fish and obviously like chicken better. A parent was once told by her child that she will not eat fish ever again. That's when he told the kid that the item on her plate was not fish but Argentinian chicken. Not only did the kid believe him but also went on to eat fish. The truth was revealed when her grandma came to dinner and revealed all.
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Many say that you aren't a real parent if you've never stepped in your child's lego blocks. It's obviously painful and as far as kids toys go, they are the fiercest. But a dad set up his kids lego block in such a way that on the battle between Lego vs parent, the latter would win.
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Kids drawing on the wall is no big deal. At least you have to tell yourself that if you have young children in the house. This parent saw that her kids have doodled on the wall and covered the entire thing in paper and actually framed the whole thing to look artsy.
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The tooth fairy myth has been used by parents over the years to comfort their children after their first tooth loss. Usually, the fairy leaves a dollar for the child after his or her tooth loss.
This genius parent actually used the story to make his child brush his teeth. A dad was sick of his child not brushing his teeth well enough and thus wrote a fake letter from the tooth fairy in which she claimed that the kid needs to brush better to maintain hygiene and even gave him a subtle warning about dental health.
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Losing your remote is a common ordeal in every household. But what happens when your children lose them and have no idea where they had kept it? A parent had a very simple solution to his kid losing the remote all the time. He attached all four of their remotes toi a wooden board so that no one can ever lose a single remote in the family.
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This parent took to Twitter to talk about how you shouldn't be too hard on your kids and give them room to make mistakes. His child drew a crayon house on the bathroom wall but be made the drawing into a token hanging where he wrote that the house was an actually a gift from the kid to his father.
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Chatty kids are always an issue but there is a way parents can make them quieter. Someone revealed recently that they were very talkative as a child, so their father told them that everyone only gets 10,000 words per month and if they used it up they'd have to stay mute for the rest of the month. Not only did it work but it worked for quite some time.
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Every kid's childhood is somehow associated with an ice cream truck and they would get pretty worked up whenever a truck would pass their neighbourhood. So a dad thought of a foolproof plan to avoid buying ice cream everyone the kids heard the truck passing by. Ice cream trucks usually ring a bell to attract customers. So the dad told his child that the bell actually means that they are out of ice cream.
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To scare a kid into taking more baths, a parent told him that he had a brother who turned into a mushroom because he didn’t wash himself. There is also a photo of a mushroom in their photo albums.
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