Meghan Moravcik Walbert

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Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.

Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.

In 2022, we stopped gaslighting our kids, taught them basic life skills, and got them to listen to us without nagging.

Because the teams always need volunteers, but no one else volunteers.

I only learned about “time-ins” long after fully implementing the “time-out.”

Don’t be stubborn about this—no crybabies allowed in this post.

Who among us has not endured a restless night (after night after night) of sleep? When you can’t fall asleep, all you can think about is how you can’t fall asleep. You might even be constantly recalculating how much sleep you’ll get if only you could fall asleep right now. Or now. While we know all that kind of thinking is hindering our ability make our dreams of sleep a reality, how can we stop it from happening? The answer, according to one cognitive scientist, might be a trick he calls “cogn…

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When our kids are babies, we cater to their every need and want. We’re their whole world, so it doesn’t matter how exhausted or busy we might be—when they call for us, we jump to attention. We go everywhere they go, and experience what they experience right along with them. As they get older, though, the way we spend…