All parents learn one important lesson about infant clothing: most of the adorable little items you purchased before the birth of your child are useless, at least for the initial several months. There is now a genius way to use those old onesies thanks to a TikTok hack.

Don’t Send the Onesies to Pasture!

When you’ve properly absorbed that Parenting 101 lesson, you’ll understand that while those onesies are quite helpful in the short term, they won’t fit that developing infant forever. You’re left with an excess of too-small items that you may either donate or just throw away.

In the video describing the hack, you can see how the onesie’s bottom was simply cut off. The bottom portion, which usually incorporates buttons for quick diaper changes, turns out to be ideal for use as a bib.

Bibs are not something that your children will quickly outgrow, unlike infant outfits. And as babies start teething and eating solids, you’ll always need additional bibs, as any parent will tell you. You can also use what’s left of the onesie as a small T-shirt if your infant outgrows onesies by length first.

Parents Love This Hack!

Parents adore this hack since it is both practical and easy to implement (no advanced sewing skills are required). While some note that bibs are less expensive than onesies, other users point out that this hack is intended for onesies that have already been worn as clothing; you are merely repurposing them after the fact, which is a cost-saving move.

The final word? This TikTok hack, which we adore, fulfills all the requirements: It saves you some money, produces something (or two things) that are truly helpful, and is doable for even the least artistic among us. Overall, it’s a success!

People often note that their own mothers like their kids more than they like them, and that seems to have been validated by a team of researchers who were looking into the matter. Apparently, a grandmother would naturally feel more empathy for her grandchildren than her own children.

Any Grandmother Is Naturally Compelled to Like Her Grandchildren

The fact that grandparents relish the opportunity to have extra-special relationships with their grandchildren is nothing surprising. According to the new study, a grandmother will naturally feel more connected with her grandchildren than with her own kids. To come to that conclusion, James Rilling, who led the study, recruited 50 women with at least one grandchild aged 3 to 12. The women were given photos of their grandchild, child, and something unrelated, and then the researchers used MRIs to scan their brains.

A Grandmother Would Feel More Emotional Empathy to Their Grandchildren

It turns out that when grandmothers viewed photos of their grandchildren, they activated brain regions that are associated with emotional empathy, showing that a grandmother may be predisposed to share her grandchildren’s emotional states. Meanwhile, photos of the women’s own children activated other areas of the brain that are linked to cognitive empathy, showing that there is more of a mental understanding of their child and less of an emotional one.

Rilling, who is a professor of anthropology, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences, has previously done a similar study asking fathers to look at photos of their kids. Apparently, grandmothers have more emotional empathy and motivation than fathers, although that is not true for every case.

While the new study has given scientists a good insight into human mentality and physiology, family relationships can differ drastically and depend on many factors, so every family has different grandparent-parent-grandchildren dynamics. Some studies even show how grandparents with outdated health guidance who participate actively in the raising of the child could be unknowingly harming their grandchildren. Still, having a grandparent who is involved in a child’s life is a blessing for most parents.