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Mike Hacks
These are my hacks
for living a better life.
They aren't necessarily
scientifically proven,
but I think they help.
Parenting
American culture has many outstanding virtues. However, the unfettered pop culture can be toxic to young children because they don't understand context, and consequently can be overly impressionable. This has implications for diet, media, entertainment, learning, etc.
Diet
Try to feed infants and even toddlers only real whole foods, and don't give them foods or drinks with added sugar or processed stuff like junk foods. Young children don't know what they're missing until you prematurely expose them to those unhealthy things (or they learn about them via their interactions with other family, friends or commercial media).
Media
Don't expose infants or even toddlers to mass and commercial media, especially the advertising and commercials.
This means that you can't watch mass and commercial media while your infants or toddlers are with you.
Learning
While your kids are doing homework in your house, parents should not be watching TV or other things that might entice your kids to not do their school work.
You are a role model for your kids.