Take 2 Spongebobs and Call Me in the Morning

Parents always want to give their kids the safest and most effective pain medication.

At least most of the time.

It used to be St. Joseph's Aspirin for Children. Then, it was Tylenol. Children's Motrin is pretty effective. But it appears that we've been missing the boat. All we need is to plop them down in front of the boob tube and flip on Nickelodeon or The Cartoon Network. That's right, researchers found that children watching cartoons suffered less pain from a hypodermic needle than kids not watching TV.

This principle can best be understood by means of the following mathematical equation: