An Indiana mom-of-three has shared an ingenious “snack hack” for coaxing kids cooped up at home—without nagging—to go easy on the snacks, whether during school closures or after classes. The hack has spread like wildfire on social media. “It’s frustrating when you know they aren’t hungry and they’re just eating out of boredom,” mom Jen Hallstrom, 31, told Today Parents. To curtail the constant snack attacks, Hallstrom devised a way to put her kids—Karley, 11, Wyatt, 7, and Millie, 2—in charge of their own cravings. Each of Hallstrom’s children were given their own colored basket, in which the savvy mom puts their snacks for the day every single morning. Each child is then tasked with spacing out their snacks—with fruit being a firm favorite—as they see fit. Hallstrom first shared her hack on Facebook in spring of 2020, during the lockdown. “When those snacks are gone they don’t get any …
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