If you’ve driven regularly with a baby, you’ve likely driven with a screaming baby.
At the risk of generalizing, babies hate driving.
Babies don’t like sitting backwards and not being able to see mommy or daddy, so they will let you know by yelling loudly and persistently, which can put them at risk of getting into a traffic accident.
Ask me how I know.
If your baby is a weirdo who loves car rides or falls asleep easily, no one is going to want to listen to you.
Tick tock
Just kidding. Well done, please share your magic.
My kids have now graduated from car ride issues, but I wish I had known then about a trick mom Jackie Ciccone recently discovered for keeping babies happy in the back seat of the car.
Magic? A photo of Jackie.
Tick tock
“Baby hates cars but loves your face,” Jackie captioned the post. Tick tock It has been viewed nearly 12 million times and has over 2 million likes.
A mother’s trick to stop her baby from crying in the car
The video begins with Jackie’s adorable baby sitting in a rear-facing car seat, looking less than pleased, while white noise plays loudly in the background.
The camera pans to the seatback opposite the baby.
Pinned to the fabric is an A4 colour print of Jackie’s smiling face.
The camera then cuts back to the baby, who is smiling so broadly that his eyes are almost closed, and making happy purring noises.
Followers went wild for the hack, saying it was the only way to deal with “velcro babies” who were clinging to their mums.
“This is genius I have a velcro baby so I think I’m going to do this too,” one person said.
“You’re standing there and she’s still smiling at the picture. So cute,” said another.
Some expressed regret for not finding out about the hack sooner.
“Where were all these genius ideas that I was yelling at the top of my lungs in the car?” one person said.
“I wish I’d thought of this,” said another. “Too much yelling in the car.” A nanny also weighed in, saying she’d used a similar trick on children in her care.
“I’m a babysitter, and if the baby is feeling down, I’ll take him to the family photo wall and let him meet his mom,” she says. “It also serves as tummy time.”
One knowledgeable mother understood what Jackie was going through.
“White noise, pictures, I know you struggle with that when you get in the car,” she said.
