Dad Discovers Ultimate Parenting Hack To Keep Kids Busy

When you become a parent, you learn very quickly that parenting is difficult.

One woman on TikTok has shared a hack that her husband learned that helps him get things done and keep his child busy.

Melissa Has A Young Family

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Melissa is married, and along with her husband, have a young son and two dogs.

This results in them being a very busy family and always looking for ways to keep their son engaged.

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Shares The Ultimate Parenting Hack

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Melissa shared a video on TikTok of her husband sharing a parenting hack to keep their child engaged.

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Her husband was very happy to share his hack with other parents on the internet!

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Involves A Phone

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It is an iPhone hack!

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When you give your child your phone, they always end up closing the screen or app that you set them up with before you hand them the phone.

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Turn Guided Access On

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He says to type "guided access" into the search bar of your phone.

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Once you open it up, make sure that you push the button to turn guided access on.

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Put On A Video

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Guided access keep the phone in a single app.

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After you have turned on guided access, go to the app you want to use like YouTube. Then you push play on the video.

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Tap Three Times

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After the video has started, you triple click the screen.

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By triple clicking the screen, you have activated the guided access. After this step you are almost through with the process!

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Input Password

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If you triple click a second time you will be asked to input your passcode.

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This is something that your kids should not be able to know, so that will help prevent them from activating this.

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Turn Everything Off

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After you have correctly inputted your password, a screen will come up with a number of different options.

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He says that you want to make sure that you turn all of them off!

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Everything Is Locked!

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Then go back to the original app or video that you want your kids to be on.

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With guided access and all of the other buttons turned off, no matter what or where your child touches, the video will keep playing!

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More Time To Yourself!

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This means that you won't have to come back every 30 seconds to open the video or app back up!

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They say that this helps give them a little extra time to get some things done!