Parenting hack: TikTok mum of six shares ‘greatest parenting hack’ to make children behave

Sharon is a mum-of-six posting her mum hacks and observations on her TikTok account @sharon.a.life. She took to the app to share a “magic” parenting hack she swears by with her younger children.

The clever hack has had over 40K “likes” on the app, where commenters were impressed by the ingenuity. Sharon said: “I’m a mother to six and I have just now discovered the greatest parenting hack, I call it ‘The Magic Method’. Why? Because I have convinced my toddler that she is magic.”

Sharon uses the trick to encourage her toddler to do tasks like cleaning up and getting dressed, something many parents struggle to convince their youngsters to do.

Sharon explained: “So whenever she doesn’t want to do something we go, ‘hey baby girl, are you magic? I’m going to close my eyes and count to five, and say the magic words and maybe you’ll magically have your pajamas on.'”

The mum demonstrated how she does it, putting her hands over her eyes and saying: “One, two, three, four, five, hocus pocus, ala magocus.”

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Commenters shared their thoughts on the trick, one of them remarking: “Be right back, trying this on my husband maybe he’ll clean the living room.”

Another said: “We do this at dinner time a lot! They magically make their food disappear.”

“Works a charm for our three-year-old, then his older brother wants to trick me too,” one commenter said.

Many parents appear to have used magic to convince their children to cooperate. One said: “My oldest used to be scared of monsters. I told her monsters were scared of me because mom’s eat monsters.”

Another wrote: “Well, in our magic world we have an imaginary cat that comes for toys whenever (our son) doesn’t want to do something.”

Another parenting hack is going viral, a French tip to help your baby sleep through the night. 

It’s known as “le pause” or “the pause”. In 2012 the idea was given the name in a French parenting book called Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman.

Experts weighed in to discuss whether the hack really does work with Express.co.uk.