Celebrating April Fool’s Day isn’t just for frat boys and office pranksters—kids love fun family jokes, too, and by helping them plan appropriate pranks, you can teach your children how to navigate the line between funny and hurtful, ensuring happy April Fool’s Days for years to come.

Here are a few fun, kid-friendly April Fool’s Day jokes you can plan with your family:

• From meatloaf cupcakes to ice cream mashed potatoes, these convincing April Fool’s Day food swaps from Family Fun will have your kids giggling with glee over each bite of sweet spaghetti and malt balls!
• These classic April Fool’s Day pranks for parents include telling your kids that you are a secret family of spies, or that the driving age is now 8.
• Teach your kids some fun April Fool’s Day activities, including “Worm in My Apple” and “The Great Salt Exchange.”

A friend of mine forwarded this link to me with the message, “As a former precocious kid, you’ll appreciate this little one’s critiques and perfectly reasonable, clear demands.” With an introduction like that, how could I not fall in love with the Tiny Art Director?

This blog follows the father of a very outspoken four year old art critic who gives him feedback on all of his sketches and paintings. My favorite is the Tomato Monster below:

The Brief: A monster (on spec)
The Critique: Too scary! He’s a tomato and he’s yelling right in my ear!
Job Status: Rejected

I laugh every time I read it! If you are looking for a fun distraction, or a little inspiration for a blog about your own family, definitely check out this site.

Have you ever seen a little boy and girl playing together in the sandbox and exclaimed, “Oooh la la! Jenny found a new boyfriend!” or “Aww! Tommy is flirting again!”?

I hear parents do it all the time. Some parents even insist that their children are “in love” with the neighbor boy, a girl in preschool or a friend’s child.

I can’t help but think that this type of behavior will inevitably manifest itself in a toddler’s development. Does it teach our children that any member of the opposite sex that you connect with has to be a romantic partner? Does it boil all male/female relationships down to a simple boyfriend-girlfriend dynamic? And, perhaps more importantly, don’t we have anything better to talk about?

It strikes me as odd and meddlesome for a parent to create a love life for a child, but maybe I’m over thinking it. What do you think? Is it harmless and cute for parents to gush over their kids’ budding relationships? Is it something more perverse? You tell us!