Activity #453: Send a message via diapers

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.

When I was selecting some posts from ParentHacks to highlight over on SafetyAtHome, I remembered this clever one: 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 throughout the week to strategically deliver messages. When my son was a baby and really into touching his privates, I wanted to write “Please take this off so I can access my penis”.

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