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If you are a new parent and don’t know about parenthacks.com, get on over there. It offers tons of suggestions from readers with kids of all ages.

My recent favorite post on parenthacks was “Pass secret messages on diapers.”

The parent/hacker wrote:

The other day after “school” I was surprised at changing time with a message on J’s diaper: “My Last Diaper!” — a message from one of her teachers that we needed to bring in another batch of diapers. The next day we sent her to school with her replacement diapers and with a response “Have a good day!” — we kept up the message passing day after day — “I [heart] Mommy and Daddy”, and an homage to Miss J’s winter coat: “I am the cutest purple marshmallow in the world.” Her Dad and I even carried it into the weekend and wrote short love notes to each other. [We do what we must to keep the spark alive. - Ed.]

I’m not sure about the more practical applications of this hack — use it to remind your spouse or caregiver of a medicine dose or doctor’s appointment, perhaps? — but I highly recommend it for plain, old, lighthearted fun.

Today’s naptime activity: write messages to your partner on four or five diapers, hide them, and use them througout the week to strategically deliver messages. In my house, Daddy usually does the first diaper of the morning and the last diaper of the evening, so it will have to be a pre-dinner diaper change. Since my son is really into touching his privates right now, I might write “Please take this off so I can access my penis”.

by Whitney in Crafty, Free/Cheap, Geeky, Month 9, Silly | Send this activity to a friend
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