Horizontal Parenting

How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down

by Michelle Woo
illustrated by Dasha Tolstikova

Need a break . . . now? Horizontal Parenting offers 50 hilarious and effective activities designed to entertain kids while you lie down.

Children are exhausting! In the marathon of modern parenting, everyone needs a break—just 10 precious minutes to rest your body and tune out the chaos. Enter horizontal parenting, the super-simple parenting hack for everyone, everywhere. With creative and practical advice for overworked parents and caretakers who “just need a minute,” this book includes 50 fun, effective, and hilarious games to play with toddlers and children while lying down.

Hardcover | 112 pages | Chronicle Books | 2021

Michelle Woo is the author of Horizontal Parenting: How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down. She was the parenting editor at Lifehacker and is a senior editor at Medium.