Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for April 25, 2020

If baby sleeps. It’s time to take the scenic route.

I remember once reading about a baby swing which played the sound of a car engine. There was also someone who invented a baby seat that fit on an upright vacuum cleaner, that way you could do house work get the baby to nap.

It’s Billy’s phone from Family Circus.

Looks like a good Formula One race course.

My son could sleep as soon as he was horizontal.

My daughter needed some kind of vibration and pressure. A buggy ride would work if the sidewalks were bumpy enough. Off visiting once, no sidewalks and the street was too smooth. Just moved into the ditch for a couple blocks; like magic.

When the tot was asleep, my goal was to get to my destination as fast as possible, before the little distraction woke again.

our 4 would be asleep before we left the driveway. One in a while we had to go around the block. The oldest hated long rides and would let us know she was not happy about it.

I put my younguns to sleep on the dryer more than once (not in mind you, just on)

It’s all good until the bambino wakes up with a loaded diaper halfway home…

now that looks like a warcraft flight path

I read that the reason Rowling finished Harry Potter in coffee shops was because she had a baby who would only sleep if given a long walk in the baby carriage. So she walked to the coffee shop, finished the novel and the rest, as they say, is history.

Hmmm, that’s the same way my bike’s GPS would route me.

Definitely not the route with a car full of tweens after breakfast.

“Hey Hon, the baby is a sleep, what say you work this gear shift?”

The route in red is the one I’d have to take to get my son to sleep.

Husband was a small town doctor, saw patients at his office in the evenings sometimes if it didn’t sound too serious. Parents were surprised that the sick babies were often much better by the time they got to the clinic. Getting out into fresh air and the car ride to the office seemed to help.

A 15 minute nap in the car seemed as good as a 2 hour nap at home for my kids.

Family Circus GPS

Rock-a-by. Curvy roads help.

100% true!