This “task” is a great way to get your kids involved in housework, and also shows them light home maintenance at an early age. It’s not only safe, but it’s fun too.

If you have a nail-hole that needs filling, let your kids handle it.

It’s super easy to make your own nail filler, from products you probably already have in your home.

Have your kids mix 3 parts baking soda and one part white glue (like Elmer’s).

You might have to add a little water to get the right consistency, as the mixture tends to shrink up as it sits out.

Because this mixture is relatively safe (I wouldn’t eat it, but I really wasn’t a glue-eater growing up), let your kid “paint the wall” where the hole is.

How often to do let your kiddo paint the walls?

My point exactly.

You’ll be the coolest parent ever- but what they don’t know, is that they are tackling a MAJOR chore- that you now don’t have to do!

Little effort, with big results!

This week’s Wordless Wednesday is being postponed.

Why?

Um, it’s a debacle…

I can’t find my camera cord!

Yikes!

So, when the cord decides to come home, I’ll be sure to get my Wordless Wednesday post up.

When that will be?

Who knows?

Just another Domestic Debacle…

It’s the 17th of February, and it’s still up.

Get your head out of the gutter. I know what you’re thinking!

This “chore” is perfect for the 2 and up crowd. It worked for my 4 year-old really well. Do I feel bad about it?

 Not one bit.

Kids like making sock puppets.

Let your kid make a sock puppet. Then tell your kid that the sock puppet hasn’t eaten in DAYS and is starving.

Really. 

So when your kid runs in the kitchen to get the sock puppet something to eat- scream “STOP!! Sock puppets can’t eat food silly, they eat DUST and drink PLEDGE!”

Then grab your can of pledge and “spray” it into the sock puppet’s mouth, and tell your kid to have at it, on all your hard surfaces. Now, if you have a lot of area to cover, get your kid’s sock puppet a friend for the other hand, and repeat. Double fun= double the work YOU aren’t going to have to do!

Little work on your part, big results!

Do you have a messy baby (or toddler) at feeding time?
Take a cue from a dog trainer. No kidding.
Put your already used (or- if you’re getting back at hubby for not putting the toilet seat down- use his new sports section) newspapers down on the floor first, so when baby is making a mess, it goes on to the paper (which you toss), and not your floor- eliminating the need for mopping!
So don’t waste your time on those expensive floor mats that you either have to wash or toss. Instead, re-use that newspaper for your baby, not the puppy.