8 parenting hacks that I swear by

These parenting hacks have made life easier for me!

Parenting is hard, so I employ every idea that promises to make it easy. After three years of being a mother, I have some hacks that are close to my heart and I suggest it to all my mommy friends. I know mothers are always short of time, so without much ado, here are the hacks that I swear by!

1. Stick chalkboard or chart paper on walls: Lil Picasso expressing her art all over the walls? While I don't mind the scribbles on the wall, gives the house a feel that a child lives here, but I understand it's not approved by most parents. I have covered my walls with stick on chalkboard, or you can also use chart paper and let the child scribble on it.
2. Give magnetic letters to stick on the fridge: Children have a knack of wanting to stick to their mothers when we are the most busy, like when cooking in the kitchen. Instead if trying to turn her out, what I do is give her magnetic alphabets, and let her stick it on the fridge. She has started to recognise a few letters now!
3. Put the child in a large cardboard box and let them paint: If you don't want to stick anything on the walls, you can simply get a huge cardboard box that can fit your child in. Put the child in the middle and let her colour away to her heart's content.
4. Put each half of a sticker on shoes: I am trying to teach my toddler to be more self-reliant. An easy way of helping her put the right shoe on her foot is by cutting a sticker in halfand sticking it on each shoe for her recognise which show goes on which foot. Genius, right!
5. Put a sticker on diapers to recognise the front and back: Another thing that I am trying for her to learn is to put her diaper on, where she gets confused with the front and back. Sticker to my rescue again. I have put a sticker on the front of all her diapers.
6. Put a pillow on the baby's back: This I learnt from my mother from when my baby was a newborn. She would sleep in our arms, and the moment you put her down, she would wake up. So we used to put her down, keep patting and slowly put a light pillow on her, so that she felt that someone was still hugging her.
7. Sweep the trash inside the borders: I am fed-up of cleaning after my daughter all the time! So this little hack is a life saver. With coloured tape, I border one tile on the floor, give my daughter a broom and then ask her to get all the trash inside the tile. She loves this game and I get my work done!
8. Tell them to hold the juice boxes 'by the ears': Had enough of your child squeezing the juice box and spilling the juice all over? Not me! I pull out the little tabs next to the straw hole on the juice box and ask my child to hold the juice box 'by its ears'. You are welcome.

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