We let the young Chatterings stay up the other night to see if David Blaine could hold his breath under water for nine minutes (who knew ABC’s program would run on until 10 p.m.?). Next morning: uh-oh. Younger Chattering woke up and announced he still had some homework to finish. Actually he’d told me that before he went to bed, but I’d forgotten and I let him sleep until seven. Tears, panic. Remarks like “Now there’s not enough time! Everything’s ruined!” were only silenced when I turned on Steven Halpern’s “Music for Accelerated Learning.” Wow. Then the homework just happened. All done. The formlessness of the music relaxes everyone. We even got to school on time.