Car Traveling with Your Family

Are your relatives road journeys relaxed rides with plenty of breaks? Or do you do automobile travel like a space capsule, hurtling through giant distances without a cease?Will you bring a flip down car DVD player with TV?

Most of us muddle through, somewhere in between. Here's tips for surviving automobile travel with kids.

Pace: try to permit time for rest stops. One hours of automobile time, then a break, makes a nice pattern, with young kids. "Rush"is a four-letter word!
Pack: a special backpack or bag for each infant, with crayons, books, toys, activity sets, stickers, handheld games-- including some new wrapped surprises for tiny kids. (But don't give out all the loot directly!)
Print out some simple games to play in the automobile.

Pint-sized board-games: can be fun. Clue, Sorry, & Trouble are oldies but goodies. & a tray-- or "travel desk" suspended from the back of the front seat-- is handy, for any activity.
Pack: plenty of snacks, such as fruit leathers, crackers, juice packs, treats; a tiny cooler, or insulated bag, for chilled drinks; plastic cups; bandaids, a dishtowel; frisbee & ball for rest-stops; & baby-wipes no matter how elderly your kids are.
Play: tales on audiobooks: they make the miles fly by. Play a narrative for the whole relatives on the automobile stereo process. Visit your local library to get tales on CD's (possibly transfer to iPod), or use a download service like Audible.com.

Playrooms: Burger King & MacDonalds have great playrooms on major highways. Let the kids burn off energy while you order their food "to go" to eat later in the automobile.
Playgrounds: every school & most parks have them! Tiny limbs need to shake, rattle, & roll.
Picnics: they are fun; the kids can run around; & you save money, . Pack your own picnic from home, or buy the fixins' at a deli or grocery store.

Potties: it is worth bringing a training pottie, if your infant has need-to-go-NOW emergencies.
Pedal-to-the-metal: in the event you need to hurtle from point A to B, use a double Din car DVD player or laptop computer, & turn your vehicle in to the Cinema on the Highway.
Sleepy Time: kids nod off basically in the automobile, & a nap can be a great way to let the miles fly by. be positive to permit plenty of wakie-wakie time. Rousing a infant from deep sleep because "we're there now" is hard.Let the roof car monitor with DVD player help you pass the time in driving!