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Evil Week: Give These Gifts to the Kids of Parents You Hate
Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games, or, er, launder some money? We’ve got all the info you need to be successfully unsavory. When you have kids, people give you gifts. It’s…
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How to Recycle Any Fisher-Price Toy for Free
If you have kids, you likely have way too many toys. Even if you don’t buy many, there’s a seemingly constant influx of grandparent gifts, birthday and Christmas presents, goody-bag swag, and hand-me-down toys from neighbours and friends. It can make for a very crowded, cluttered playroom. (And kitchen, and family room, and basement…because all…
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How to Trick Your Work-Obsessed Brain Into Taking Actual Leisure Time
Clearly, at this point, we know there’s no such thing as “work-life balance.” There never was, and there definitely isn’t now, during a pandemic. And then there’s “work hard, play hard.” Remember that old chestnut? The assumption was that the harder you work, the more plentiful and enjoyable your leisure time will be.
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When to Introduce Little Kids to Video Games
Children have been playing video games since Pong came out in the early ‘70s. According to Common Sense Media, before schools shut down, kids spent an hour or more each day playing social games like Minecraft and Fortnite. But screen time has increased significantly in the age of social distancing. Last year, aspiring gamers searched…