Dad Hacks

A fast, fun book of easy handyman skills and cool fatherhood tricks for dads. Rob Palmer is a third-generation builder and father-of-three on a mission to pass on the sort of no-nonsense tips we used to get from our parents and grandparents. Dad Hacks is brimming with ingenious household hacks that are easy to learn and will save your family time and money, while making Dad feel like a DIY champion! Learn how to: * Build a cubby * Roll a backyard cricket pitch * Get your family out the door on time * Cook something they'll actually want to eat * Make a speech * Stop your shoes smelling * Avoid a hangover * PLUS MUCH, MUCH MORE A perfect blend of old-fashioned commonsense, practical skills and time-saving hacks for busy modern families. This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

Learn the secrets to surviving fatherhood when your dad skills are under pressure with The Brick of Dad Hacks. Let’s face it, not all of us are blessed with the mythical “angel baby” that breezes right through to adulthood with no hassle or fuss. It’s game on when the baby starts walking. Navigate parenting like a pro from the tantrums of the terrible twos to threenagers, taming the ferocious fours, the fantastic fives, sassy sixes, and the rollercoaster of adolescence. This is the smart dad’s guide to parenting. It contains experienced parenting tips and tricks, and is appropriate for new dads and parents managing kids of all ages for the first time. This book has all the easy answers to your parenting problems. Have questions about sleepovers, birthday parties, and drop-off playdates? Going on a camping trip with your 10 year old, or planning a beach day with your preschooler? We’ve got a hack for that. These quick reference hacks are here to help when you’re juggling wailing babies in public and moody teenagers at home. Inside you’ll find hacks for: - Family fun with kids of all ages - Easy meals in 15 minutes or less - Handling meltdowns and crying kids - Outings with infants, toddlers, and kids aged preschool and up - Storytime - Baby-proofing your home - Raising your teenager - And more! These hacks will help you manage the kicking, hitting, fighting with siblings, back-talking, endless questions, and the terrifying day when they learn “NO!”—but they will also guide you through the positive moments that you’ll remember and cherish forever. Whether you’re stuck in the car for a road trip and want to keep your kids entertained, need a healthy weeknight meal after a long day at school, or you’re just looking for new ways to spend quality time as a family, The Brick of Dad Hacks has you covered!

“Like the YouTube channel, this is a touching yet informative guide for those seeking fatherly advice, or even a few good dad jokes.” — Library Journal

DIY House and Garden: A fast, fun book of easy handyman skills and cool fatherhood drills for dads to hack their way back into legend status with their kids and families (and to save Dad from embarrassment when his wife pays a tradie $150 for five-minutes work!).

The author of Life Hacks returns with this indispensable, fully illustrated manual—featuring 112 ingenious yet simple tricks, shortcuts, and ideas—every dad needs to solve a host of everyday annoyances and dilemmas. Packed with a wealth of advice, Dad Hacks offers invaluable solutions for more than one hundred common problems fathers face everyday. These hacks—“a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency”—use basic materials and familiar techniques in ingenious ways. Tired of replacing your razors? Blast the blade with a hairdryer. The shot of hot air will eliminate residual moisture and help prevent oxidization and dulling. Conveniently packaged in a portable flexibound format with rounded corners, Dad Hacks provides creative fixes—all fully illustrated and easy to follow—for a wide range of ordinary occurrences, including: • Household Hacks • Food and Drink Hacks • DIY Hacks • Gadget Hacks • Health and Well-being Hacks • Hacks on the Go • Car and Bike Hacks • Hacks for the Kids • Garden and Outdoor Hacks • Clothing and Grooming Hacks With advice for the car, office, house, electronics, travel, and much, much more, Dad Hacks is essential for every tool kit, glove box, and work drawer.

The wildly popular DIY dad follows up his instant New York Times bestseller with a fresh batch of geeky weekend science projects for the whole family to enjoy. Ken Denmead struck a chord with parents and kids across America with his GeekDad blog on Wired.com, which receives more than one million page views per month. His debut book, Geek Dad, was on bestseller lists and in its seventh printing just two months after hitting store shelves. With The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun, he keeps the nerdtastic novelties coming, with projects that teach readers how to: •Build homemade robots from scratch •Write and direct simple stop-motion movies •Hack into mechanical toys to add cool electronic twists, and more United by the premise that to really understand science and how something works you must design and build it yourself or remake it better, Geek Parents everywhere will celebrate this latest installment of weekend workshop wonders. Watch a Video

________________ The ultimate money-saving guide for parents and parents-to-be - steering you through the early years without completely emptying your pocket. If you've ever stood in the baby section of a department store and thought 'WTF! How on earth can they charge £200 for a miniature wicker basket for my baby to sleep in?' then this is the book for you! Why is becoming a parent so EXPENSIVE? Facebook sensations LadBaby have taken the internet by storm with their genius money-saving hacks and now they're ready to show you how you can do it too. This book will not only help you dodge some of parenthood's biggest expenses but keep you smiling while you do it. Get ready for: - Alternative Moses baskets - Free nappy stations - Make-at-home soft-play ball pits - A do-it-yourself newborn photo shoot No stone will be left unturned as Ladbaby tackle babyland head on!

A humorous gift book that introduces the different species of American fathers, from A to Z Of all the mammalian species of North America, few are as paradoxically mysterious and demanding of attention as the human father of the United States. Quiet yet steady in his affection and deafeningly loud when he’s mad, the American dad—as much as we love him—is a particularly exciting study, which is why we’ve created this guide as an aid for readers to identify themselves (if you happen to be a dad), their dads (if you happen to have a dad), dads on television (often a stand-in when your dad’s not around), and dads in the wild. In The Father of All Dad Guides: From A(doring) to Z(addy), you will learn how to identify fathers through: · Their markings. Some dads have mustaches. Others do not! · Dad calls. These include: “I’ll turn this car around right now” and “Can’t you ask your mom about that?” · Migration patterns. Why does Dad consistently ignore directions when he clearly doesn’t know where he is going? · Hibernation. Dads are tired all the time. · Defining characteristics. All dads are different, but they typically fall into at least one of the categories we’ve collected here. Is your dad obsessed with barbecuing? He might be a grill dad. Did he only really begin to see women as people deserving of political and social equality after he had daughters? That right there is the feminist dad!