6 Weird Tricks to Spending More Time with Your Toddlers (#3 is CRAZY!)

5.  Read a book:  This works best if it’s the book you’re supposed to discuss at book club night, and which you maybe haven’t actually started yet. Maybe. Don’t confuse this with deliberately trying to attract your little guy with that Robert McCloskey treasury. While this is an admirable attempt at genuine educational improvement, it can quite often backfire…

…as when your two year old squirms down off your lap, locates the iPad, clambers back, fires it up (wait, how does he know what the pass-code is??) and points to that glowing red Netflix logo with a delighted roar of “Ah HAH!!!.”