Life Hacks for Parents: Practical Hints for Making Life with Kids Easier

by Dan Marshall

More than one hundred simple yet ingenious tricks, shortcuts, and ideas to help parents solve everyday occurrences and annoyances in one convenient, illustrated, flexibound pocket-sized guide. As the father of two children, Dan Marshall knows that just one time-saving tip can save the day for busy parents—whether they’re up to their elbows in dirty diapers with a newborn, chasing a high-energy toddler, or organizing their young scholars’ school projects. In Parent Hacks , he provides simple, easy-to-follow advice for tackling life’s everyday annoyances using materials and techniques that are either already on hand or easily attainable. Every tip is fully illustrated, making each easy to follow and master. Packaged in an appealing and portable size and designed with an easy-to-open spine and rounded-corners perfect for a back pocket, diaper bag, backpack, or purse, this indispensable guide offers dozens of inspired yet practical techniques for tackling the entire house, from kitchen to playroom to bedroom to bathroom, From converting an egg carton into a DIY paint palette to washing germs and goo off of plastic toys in the dishwasher to freezing a bag of marshmallows to make a soft and soothing ice pack that isn’t too cold for little ones, Parent Hacks offers handy, proven solutions for every mom and dad!

Genres: Parenting

192 pages, Paperback

Published December 5, 2017

About the author

DAN MARSHALL grew up in a nice home with nice parents in Salt Lake City, Utah, before attending UC Berkeley. After college, Dan worked at a strategic communications public relations firm in Los Angeles. At 25, he left work and returned to Salt Lake to take care of his sick parents. While caring for them, he started writing detailed accounts about many of their weird, sad, funny adventures. Home is Burning is his first book.

Reviews

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun, especially the tongue-in-cheek captions for the simple drawings. Only a few hacks seem applicable for my nephew (a toilet target, tent sandpits, and a race-car chore-tracker) but let’s see...

[Caitlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some tips are great, some are meh. A few were recycled from Marshall's book Tidy Hacks, which I read right before this one, and for such a short book (with a $15.99 price tag), that's kind of annoying.

[Estee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish all parenting books were like this. I mean as a new parent, who has time to read a 500 page book with detailed instructions? Not me!

This book was funny and I loved the photos. Wish i had read it earlier.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some tips I use all the time, some I wish I had known or thought of and some that seemed unhelpful or not worth the effort
best quote
"parenting tip - do not say 'boob-cube' in public"!

[Tiffany · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some good hacks in this book, but most were either things I already knew or hacks for parents of infants. I'm not sure I would buy this again.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has awesome ideas!

[Bethany Lockhart · Rating 2 out of 5]

Skimmed— a few gems but overall not many that resonated with me. I will NOT be giving my child a video game controller that’s not plugged in so that I can play more. But I will be freezing purées into ice cube trays for easy use later.