Calm your Baby with the Dark Side of the Force
I don't remember the first time my wife and I went searching for ways to get our newborn son to stop crying, but I seem to recall there were lots and lots of people with advice on the topic. Some suggestions included:
- Quiet things down in the house
- Make lots of noise in the house
- Swaddle him up
- Don't you dare swaddle him up
- Rock him
- Hold him very still
- Take a car ride because the vibrations will soothe him
- Don't take a car ride because you'll have to do it every time
- Sing loudly
- Talk softly
- Bourbon (for dad, not the baby)
I wish I had known about using The Force. Or, at least the Imperial March from Star Wars:
Later on in life he may attempt to destroy a planet after saying, "Now behold the power of this fully armed and operational battle station!" But really, that's a problem for another day. In a galaxy far, far away.