Parent Hacks

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Potty training hack: cotton training pants + maxi pad = homemade training diapers

in: Featured, Poop, Pee & Potty

DIY Pull Ups (Bloom Where He Plants You) #parenthacks

When “self training” was dragging on for too long, Jaime decided to give her son a bit more encouragement to potty train. She wanted to avoid expensive and ineffective training diapers, so she came up with her own frugal hack: she fashioned training diapers out of cotton training pants reinforced with maxi pads. Can we all […]

Useful or not: touchless flush for home toilets

in: Poop, Pee & Potty

I just received a product pitch as a potential hack: a kit that adds a touchless flush sensor to home toilets. You wave your hand in front of the sensor and the toilet flushes. No touching handles. Part of me thinks this could be a fine hack, but another part of me thinks hmmmmm. Useful or not? […]

Potty train at 17 months? Talk amongst yourselves.

in: Poop, Pee & Potty

Jennifer’s 17 month-old son appears to be potty training himself. In fact, there isn’t much “training” going on which is causing Jennifer some confusion as to how to proceed. Any advice for her?

Potty training tip: Use an empty baby wipe container as a dirty underwear “transporter”

in: Poop, Pee & Potty

Can there ever be enough potty training tips? I don’t think so, especially because the process goes so differently for different kids.

Erin shared this eminently practical hack for handling the, uh, fallout.

Neatly dispense baby ointment and diaper cream with an empty syringe

in: Poop, Pee & Potty

Creams and ointments come with the job, and this brilliant hack from Kerry puts an old syringe to work as an applicator.

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Asha Dornfest is the author of Parent Hacks and other books, and co-host of the Edit Your Life podcast. More about Asha »

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