Protect their necks!
So there’s that thing when you’re driving, usually back from somewhere–in this case it was a Napa winery and playground (wine for the parents, park for the kids). And it’s afternoon, and one or another of the kids has fallen sleep in the back, the slow drift-off, the bumpity-bump, the peace of it, tired from the sun, from the running around.
And you get back to 80, and, because it’s a sunny weekend afternoon, it’s all trafficy and stop and go starting in El Cerrito and on through Berkeley. And, then, the trick, as the driver, is to keep moving, steady pace, without ever having to stop so quickly that your kids’ necks jerk forward. So you glide, you watch, you switch lanes, you glide some more, all in the name of not rattling their rest. And the sun is shining. And it’s that thing you do, driving with your kids, back from somewhere.
