I babysat a friend's kids for a week once. A YouTube video of police cars, ambulances, fire trucks driving by was an amazingly potent distraction and pacifier.

I babysat a friend's kids for a week once. A YouTube video of police cars, ambulances, fire trucks driving by was an amazingly potent distraction and pacifier. I used it very very sparingly (it was just one week, and I was on holiday, not working), but I can see how it's extraordinarily tempting.