Horizontal Parenting: How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down

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Children are exhausting! In the marathon of modern parenting, everyone needs a break - just 10 precious minutes to rest your body and tune out the chaos. Enter: Horizontal Parenting, the super-simple parenting hack for everyone, everywhere. With creative and practical advice for overworked parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and caretakers who "just need a minute," this book includes 50 fun, effective, and hilarious games to play with your children while lying down. Activities range from "M Is for Massage" to "Hide and Seek-ish" to "What's on My Butt?" - giving children a chance to release some energy while you catch your breath (and maybe a few even a few z's). All you need is a comfortable surface, a few household items, and your child's imagination, and you too can master the sanity-saving art of horizontal parenting.

Michelle Woo is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. She was the parenting editor at Lifehacker, where she wrote essential articles on modern family life, including the widely read inspiration for this book, "How to Entertain Your Child While Lying Down." Her work has been featured by CNN, USA TODAY, and Jezebel. She is a mom to two young children, and is currently a senior platform editor at Medium.