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To drugs for your kids, that is. There was an article widely reported in the press last week about parents who use Benadryl to keep their young children quiet on planes. A poll on babycenter.com got the usual flames going by the people who sedate vs. those who don’t. Though from my experience the people on babycenter can get just as incensed over whether it’s better to spell Kelly with a y or an i.

With our first babies, we were horrified at such an idea, but over time and air miles logged, a teaspoonful of the pink stuff starts to seem like a more pragmatic—not to mention humane solution (for everyone including the baby). Our theory is that it’s one of those parenting things that you kind of let go of as you have more kids and get more frazzled, kind of like opening up to the possibility that every single toy they own doesn’t have to be handmade of renewable wood with vegetable dyes.

--Kelly & Melanie