Category Archives: Life tips

Questionable fashion tip

Not that I’ve got much of a clue about fashion, but this seems a little out of order:
I pick out my necklace before the rest of my outfit.

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Effective parenting requires creativity

I love these tips!
My proudest recent achievements have been persuading my picky-eater daughter to eat dry All-Bran Flakes by calling them … wait for it … Breakfast Chips. Sheer brilliance.
I also, after 7 nights in a row of her eating pesto on spaghetti (and only if we called the pasta noodles), beat her at her [...]

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Paper money?

Probably likes to spin some 45s, too:

I like to iron my paper money.

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Parents, here’s a trick to try with your kids…

I’m thinking that these must be relatively young children:
Lately I have been training my kids to repeat “You are always right, Mom” to me when I have won a hard-fought battle over something they resisted and I pushed them on- and then things work out the way I said they would and they are glad [...]

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Here’s a tip for how to get your spouse or kids to eat their veggies

Here’s an interesting Random Thing that offers a healthy living tip:

I hide vegetables in food. My husband claims to hate tomatoes, green peppers, and onions. One day, I was making something that called for stewed tomatoes. Knowing how much he loooooves tomato, I pulled out my tiny food chopper and made the tomato tiny. I [...]

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Random Things about parenting

In honor of my dad coming home from the hospital today, here are some Best Random Things related to parenting:

I talk to my nine month old non-stop. When we go shopping I ask him questions about what he thinks of what we’re going to buy, or if I should buy one thing or another. People [...]

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Words to live by: Friends don’t let friends parent drunk

Here’s some good advice to apply as appropriate:
My favorite drink is Tequila shots but I never get to drink it anymore…:( I do have responsibilities in the morning you know…the last thing I want is to wake up with a hangover and make breakfast for a 7 year old.

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Is this a joke or not? Chances are it’s the truth…

Experts say that people are at least as honest online as they are in the putatively real world. So Your Thingmeister is inclined to take this as face value:
I eat bugs. When I was little I would catch them in jars, shake them till they died and then rip them apart into sections, and [...]

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