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Parent Hacks: 134 Genius Shortcuts for Life with Kids
by Asha Dornfest
Workman
2016, 272 pages, 5 x 0.8 x 7 inches (softcover)
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In 2005 Asha Dornfest, a new parent, launched the blog Parent Hacks as a way for parents to share tips that make raising young children less nerve-racking. — Read the rest
The latest incarnation of Parent Hacks is the best yet: Parent Hacks: 134 Genius Shortcuts for Life with Kids, with illustrations from Craighton Berman.
Here's this year's complete Boing Boing Gift Guide: more than a hundred great ideas for prezzies: technology, toys, books and more. Scroll down and buy things, mutants! Many of the items use Amazon Affiliate links that help us make ends meet at Boing Boing, the world's greatest neurozine. — Read the rest
Enjoy the third and final part of this year's gift guide: toys! Also included are everything else that doesn't quite fit into our picks among the books and gadgets to enchant and enwonderize us in 2016. What cool and weird objects of fascination did you find this year? — Read the rest
When we got to rounding up our favorite books for our annual Gift Guide, we found that there were simply too many this time to throw in the Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukah/Yule/Solstice/Nonspecific Winter Celebration/New Year/Chalica hopper along with the tech and toys.
It's almost as if 2016 made the traditional way of learning more about our world — and of sharing dreams of other worlds — somehow more enticing. — Read the rest
More than 250,000 of Mumbai's workers enjoy a home-cooked lunch every day thanks to the dabbawallas, who bring tiffins — stacking lunchpails — filled at each worker's family kitchen directly to their workplace, in a miracle of coordinated logistics that consistently beats Mumbai's legendary traffic jams and attains unheard-of accuracy despite the low levels of literacy among dabbawallas.
If you've got a Super Boy bandaid spray with a little boy on it and you'd prefer a little girl mascot, you can use a Sharpie to effect a simple mod. Clever! The creator explains: "Lou was playing chase and scraped her knee pretty bad. — Read the rest
Marylin points us to ToyInstructions, a wiki for operating details of commercial toys — how to make them go after you LTFM ("lose the fine manual") and how to hack them to get the most ludens for your lira.
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Welcome to toyinstructions, a collaborative wiki of deep links to instructions, user manuals, and building guides for toys and children's games.
eBay Guides has a collection of tips to boost your chances of grabbing a prize in a claw machine game. From the Guide:
— Read the restThree Pronged Claws:
This type of claw usually handles small stuffed animals and small collectable basketballs. This type of claw is somewhat similar to the four pronged claw, but instead of having two of the prongs positioned above the arms, you have a choice of the prongs going around the left or right arm.
Cottonelle Kids toilet paper is designed to assist kids in using the "right amount" of toilet paper each time. According to the directions, the
"paw prints show kids how much toilet paper to use. Kids follow the prints to the puppy and tear off the right amount." — Read the rest
I dig the looks of Zevro's Indispensable Dispenser for food like cereal, granola, and nuts. It would be fun to line up a half-dozen of these on the counter and mix up all kinds of crunchy concoctions. Twist the faucets to taste. — Read the rest
Reader Gary Peare says,
"Bananaslug creator Steve Nelson was inspired by Mark's recent Mind Hacks post to create Parent Hacks by Lizzie Borden — a book in the O'Reilly Hacks series that he'd like to see."
