Weird Parenting Quirks/Hacks; what’s yours?

Everyone must have their own parenting quirks/hacks!

Mine is instead of doing ‘choo-choo’ train sound with little one to get her to open her mouth for feeds, I sing ‘hungry shark’ (baby shark theme tune but changed the words to hungry shark) and her mouth opens every time!

What’s yours?

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This made me laugh 😅
When my son is upset I sing 'baby boy' to the tune of baby shark to cheer him up 🤣

I sing “Clara shark” & “Faye Faye shark” 🫣🤣🤣We also have like a timer for brushing teeth and washing hands & I change the words of it too - brushing teeth is mostly “ah ah ah ah ahs and eehs, brush your ahs and eehs”. We actually change a lot of songs🤔Fave is “Copacabana”.

It all started yesterday but my husband gave our son a foot massage and he slept in 2 mins (usually 15-20). Tried it this morning too and it also helped. Lets see. 👀

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