We all believe the notion that little kids are cute. Their bright, happy faces and light-hearted demeanor serve to remind us of the simpler, carefree days of childhood filled with cotton candy, warm glasses of milk, and Saturday morning cartoons. That is, of course, until they smear our brand new iPods with peanut butter and innocently drop them into steaming bathtubs, saying “I wan-ed tah hea-yuh Barwney sing underwawtuh, Mommy!”

Child not includedBefore giving child services a reason to beat your door down, why not introduce your child to music with their own MP3 player? The Lexar MPC128-266 is a great way to keep your kid distracted during your profanity-laced episodes of Tourette’s brought about by waif-induced technological mishaps. And at only twenty bucks, this one is a no-brainer (to continue the Barney reference, naturally).

At 128MB of memory, the device won’t store more than a full album or two of music, but with the “I Love You” song on permanent loop it’s likely your offspring will be too brainwashed content to mind.