Tips from a Teenager

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Get your kids to eat their greens by filling a lettuce leaf with peanut butter and granola. It's a lettuce burrito!
Teenager Sam Holzinger is back with some more great tips from his generation.

  • To ensure that your speakers don't scratch your floors, cut tennis balls cut in half and place them underneath the bottom. This also absorbs some of the vibration so you don't bother others.

  • The next time you make gelatin, replace the cold-water portion with vanilla yogurt. it is for kids to get their calcium.

  • Make a healthy drink for kids with one cup cola, one cup orange juice, and two cups pineapple juice.

  • A great wintertime snack is a cup of hot cocoa with a teaspoon of peanut butter in it.

  • If your kids hate broccoli, slice up the stalks and let them dip that in Ranch dressing.

  • Set a timer on your stereo and/or lights to come on at the same time as your alarm to help get you up in the morning.

  • Freeze water in a two-liter bottle and use it to soothe sore muscles.

  • Cut the corners off old credit cards and use them as guitar picks.