{"id":4688,"date":"2010-05-07T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2010-05-07T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T21:00:06","slug":"the-power-of-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"The power of a song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CD that we most often listen to in the car is Baby Einstein&#8217;s Playdate Fun, and Avery has grown quite fond of the Baby Einstein Theme (track one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Baby-Einstein-Playdate-Various-Artists\/dp\/B000I2IQA6\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1273253737&#038;sr=1-9\">here<\/a>). She likes it so much, in fact, that if she&#8217;s upset and hears the song, she instantly stops crying; Q and I call it the crack song for its addictive qualities. (It happened again this morning: she was super tired and cranky as we drove home from a Target run, and she stopped crying the moment I turned on the song.) The only unfortunate thing is that it&#8217;s really short (less than 25 seconds in length) &#8211; but that&#8217;s what the &#8220;repeat&#8221; button is for.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s amazing what this song can do, but it&#8217;s not the first time that music has helped us with our kids. When Zoe was a baby, we used Baby Loves Jazz&#8217; Lullabye (last track <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Baby-Loves-Jazz-Go\/dp\/B000G759FI\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1273265322&#038;sr=1-2\">here<\/a>) to lull her to sleep in the car: we would turn it on and watch as &#8211; like magic &#8211; her eyes slowly closed. It worked almost every time &#8211; until she was 2 1\/2 or so. If only it was that easy to get Zoe to sleep these days!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CD that we most often listen to in the car is Baby Einstein&#8217;s Playdate Fun, and Avery has grown quite fond of the Baby Einstein Theme (track one here). She likes it so much, in fact, that if she&#8217;s upset and hears the song, she instantly stops crying; Q and I call it the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46-two-kids-may-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}