Help Your Kindergartener Prepare for the School Lunch Rush

School’s starting, and for many kindergarteners, one of the major changes they face is lunch time. The lunch routine in kindergarten is nothing like at home, at daycare or in preschool: they have a smaller window of time in which to get their meals unpacked and eaten, and at the beginning of school, many kids get…

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Author: Lorraine Allen on Offspring, shared by Lorraine Allen to Lifehacker

Let Your Kid Stay Up Past Their Bedtime to Read

My son logged a lot of reading hours over the summer, partly because it is his third favorite way to pass time (the first would be playing with a friend; the second would be any and all screen time) and partly because he was trying to earn a restaurant coupon.

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Author: Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Meghan Moravcik Walbert to Lifehacker

Transform Any Creamy Dressing With Burnt Onion

When you first begin cooking, you are told that burnt food is bad. If sitcom writers wish to communicate to their audience that a housewife is bad at her duties, they will often have her burn dinner, and possibly set off a smoke alarm so hilarity can ensue. But some things are really good burnt. Onions are one of…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker