Jack Johnson is a wizard!

My kids have an immense love for Curious George, so after we watched the Will Ferrell movie about 30 times, I bought the sound track thinking it would be a nice diversion from the two Veggie Tales CDs we listen to continuously in the car. There's only so many times you can listen to a gourd sing "I don't got a belly button" in one day before you start to lose your mind. I do kind of enjoy the worship CD where the Veggies are singing something about seeking God's beauty. I don't remember the real words though because from the back seat mine are singing, "...I would seek to shake your booty." Clearing up the confusion as to why the song was about God's booty didn't stop them from singing it wrong. Funny once, annoying twice, and stuck in your head forever like a it's been pounded in with a nail gun on the third time!

Enter Jack Johnson. The soundtrack to Curious George is all him, and I discovered a very valuable secret the first time we played it-when he sings, my kids shush! I think the tone of his voice is so soothing that it just lulls them into a calmed stupor. Sometimes when the three of them are really driving me crazy in the car, I switch on some Jack Johnson (any of his CDs seem to do the trick), and it gets quiet. I have to say, there needs to be a way to bottle that kind of magic into a pill form! Airlines should pipe it through the planes! My hope is that the hypnotic effect will never wear off so that when they're teens and I hear, "Mom! You don't know anything! You're ruining my..."I can just crank up the volume on Banana Pancakes and "pretend that it's the weekend." Better, it'll get quite enough for me to remember what it was like when I could listen to my own music in the car and it was just me. Until then, Thank you Mr. Johnson for giving me the silence, even if it only lasts to the grocery store.