Summertime, and the livin's easy (except for one thing)

It's what every parent dreads...

Adam Pollack
July 09, 2023

Howdy,

It’s Summer, and that means one thing.

Putting endless amounts of sunscreen on your children.

And doing this is harder than catching a greased-up squirrel with your bare hands...

Or is it?

Here’s a tip… that has worked wonders for us.

I call it: "Sunscreen carwash."

Print a "VIP ticket" and give it to your kid.

It allows one special admission to the most exclusive car wash on this planet.

Make them “drive up”.

Inspect their ticket and lose your damn mind because you’ve never seen one like it.

Put them in “neutral” and start inching them forward.

Spin them around a few times.

Spray their legs.

Brush a towel over their head.

Spray their arms down.

Make silly car wash noises.

Get their face and neck.

Then…

💨💨💨

The piece de resistance for us is "drying them off."

This couldn’t happen until they were buckled into their car seats.

Otherwise, they might “blow away.”

Once they were properly secured, I pointed a leave blower at them and let it rip.

Oddly very therapeutic for me.

Oh, and they loved it too.

The best part?

This does double duty:

1. Suncreen on your kids is no longer a fight.

2. Your sloth-like children are transformed into Olympic sprinters. They BOOK IT out of the house and into the car for school.

PS Got any hacks like this worth sharing? Reply to this email. I want to hear them.

From a LinkedIn post by Dr. Becky at Good Inside:

This was eye-opening as someone who resorts to reason all too often with my kids.

“Being a father is the single greatest feeling on Earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.”

Ryan Reynolds

The answer to last week’s riddle? A fire.

Here’s this week’s…

What has keys but can’t open locks?

I’ll reveal the answer next week (or you can reply if you know!)

I’ll see ya next Sunday.

P.S. Flying with your kid anytime soon? This is genius.