More about Happy Kids

I’ve mentioned before how creative we’ve had to be to keep Luke happy. I was thinking the other day about some of our earlier trips in the car.


When we were in the car we learned early on that Luke did not sleep. In fact our first trip to my parents house (about a 2 hour trip) was spent wishing we had ear plugs. Luke was 3 weeks old at the time. He had a full belly, clean diaper, and was ready for a nap….but that didn’t stop him from letting us know he did not like being in the car and on the way home, he screamed the whole way. Eventually we got to the point where anything was better than hearing him scream when we went places in the car, so we started turning the music up really loud to drown him out. Amazingly it worked!! After a couple minutes Luke was quiet as could be, although we also soon found out that the music that would work the best was by Randy Travis. We would try other music off and on, but Randy Travis always worked. Go figure.

Now he no longer screams in the car, but he doesn’t sleep either. When he is really tiered like on a therapy day, he’ll be quiet and then when I have to stop either at a stop light or stop sign he’ll start screaming. Like screaming will lift the car up and over all the other cars in my way, right?

Now, instead of Randy Travis we have moved on to watching DVD’s. But not just any DVD will work to keep him calm in the car. Remembering that music has always worked in the past, we started with Baby Einstein (which always worked) but I can only handle so much “Old MacDonald”. We have now moved on to Veggie Tales Sing Along videos. They do the trick, for now anyway.

Keeping kids happy can make us try strange things, but when they work....they work!!  If you haven't figured out, I am now a huge fan of Randy Travis!!