Of all the costs of new parenthood-stretch marks, lost sleep, depleted funds-the most traumatic is to one's ears. You spend years curating a hip CD collection, then-wham!-your life becomes a death march down the Barney highway. Here are half a dozen kids' albums you'll be proud to blast out your minivan windows. The selections of classical pieces and standards can be a little obvious (What a Wonderful World, Over the Rainbow), but the execution is hypnotic. Singer Karen Peris (who wrote the lovely original My Love Goes with You) has a transporting quaver that makes this bedtime disc positively sopor-riffic.
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