Cheap Kids Headphones

What kind of headphones, if any, are safe for a toddler to use? We'll be flying in a couple of weeks and if DD wants to watch those Jet Blue tv's she'll need...

When I first became a parent, I was certain I was going to limit her screen time to an hour a week of highly educational programming that would stimulate and instruct. Then I remembered that I'm a television producer with a great love of garbage reality television and truthfully the TV is on A LOT in our house.

for Tecca Long gone are the days when counting cows served as the form of entertainment on long car trips on the way to Grandma's house. Today's kids have every type of entertainment gadget imaginable, along with an arsenal of apps to keep them occupied during even the longest car trips.

Monster-sized headphones became all the rage back in the 1970s. Portable music players began to emerge in the 1980s, and headphones began to shrink. Then Apple debuted the iPod in 2001, and included a pair of sleek, white earbuds in every package [source: Hormby].