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The Best Kids’ Lunch Boxes, According To Our Cleaning Expert
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist and author of the New York Times bestselling book, My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag … And Other Things You Can’t Ask Martha. Her flagship column, “Ask a Clean Person”, debuted in 2011. Here on Lifehacker, we’ve launched a new iteration of it, focusing on parenting and…
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Make After-School Routines Easier By Colour-Coding A Clock
As a parent, I often feel like a walking stopwatch. “Three more minutes of TV!” “Eight minutes before it’s time to brush your teeth!” “Twenty-four minutes until bedtime!”
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How To Skim A Textbook When You Don’t Have Time To Read
I’ve been both a student and an instructor, and I totally get it. Textbooks are dry and hard to read. But if you don’t have time to read the whole chapter like you’re supposed to, there is actually a better solution than just glazing your eyes over the first paragraph a few times.
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If You Want To Do Better In School, Ask For Help
Studying can feel like a solitary activity – looking back at my student days, I remember sitting alone at a desk with just my textbooks, highlighters, cans of Coke and expanding self-doubt. If I didn’t understand a concept, or couldn’t find an answer, I’d search deeper into the pages, desperately, thinking maybe there was a…