Being a grown-up is impossible some days. Having a child and being a parent is a mammoth task for anyone! Although these are awesome tricks for parents with actual kids, they could also be very useful for those days you (or your new room-mate) are not feeling all that grown up yourselves. Here are our top 5:

1. Easy Ice Cream Clean Up – because we all love ice-cream, and sometimes no matter how fast you lick, the melting gets the better of you. 
2. Easily Remove Splinters: We all get them, we all hate them and we all want to get them out painlessly. Mix baking soda and water into a paste, apply and Hey Presto – out pops the splinter. Or, you know, dig it out with tweezers… Baking soda, go with the baking soda!
3. No More Knives – for that perfect booste of fruit energy or your next romantic evening (depending on what kind of kid you are dealing with) use a straw to de-stem strawberries. Helps the little kids make themselves a quick snack and the big kids avoid boo-boo’s which may interfere with um… late night…um… fun. 
4. A Little Tape Will Turn Toenail Clipping Into An Easy Cleanup: a winner for kids of all ages and sizes! Wrap the tape, sticky side in, around the clippers and go wild!
5. You may have seen this before but its so good we are showing you again! Turn a pizza box into plates:

If you have, by some freak oversight, not seen the pizza box deal, check out the video here and for more of these handy tips and tricks click here. You play nicely now, kids!

[Source] Mashable