Google “parenting books” and start down a dark, deep rabbit hole of thousands of books to help you become the perfect parent, which, as us parents know, does not exist. So let’s take things in smaller bites, shall we?

We found great parenting hack threads on Reddit that has tips and tricks we have never, ever heard of on everything from getting a child to calm down to burping a baby to the best restaurant to teach manners, which is something we didn’t know we needed to know until now.

Best parenting hacks

So here are the best nuggets we’ve found. Let us know in the comments if these work for you!