Car travel tips
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:42 pm
Here are some tips for the travel with car---
* Decide do your kids do better in the early morning or evening hours for traveling? Which ever it is plan your travel to match, for this editor our kids don't travel well in the morning they do much better if we leave after 2:00pm and travel into the evening.
* Stock your car with:
o Favorite pre-bagged snacks for everyone even parents.
o A cooler with lots of water and favorite drinks.
o Colored pencils, crayons, a few coloring books, sticker books, travel games, travel journal for older kids
* Take along Gameboys & games, personal CD/cassette players (even for little kids), and you can get books on tape from the library.
* Do consider a portable DVD player, this makes 5 or 6 hour a day seem like 2 hours. It also cuts a lot of the unnecessary stops as the kids are involved in the movie playing.
* Here's a great packing tip form a mom of 3. To avoid the difficulty of hauling in a suitcase for every person into a hotel for the 1 night stops. Pack a 3 day bag into which each person contributes 3 days worth of clothes. This way you take one suitcase of clothes in every three days.
* Do pack a lightweight table cloth for outdoor lunch stops along the way.
* Do get postcards from every major destination along the way.
thanks
* Decide do your kids do better in the early morning or evening hours for traveling? Which ever it is plan your travel to match, for this editor our kids don't travel well in the morning they do much better if we leave after 2:00pm and travel into the evening.
* Stock your car with:
o Favorite pre-bagged snacks for everyone even parents.
o A cooler with lots of water and favorite drinks.
o Colored pencils, crayons, a few coloring books, sticker books, travel games, travel journal for older kids
* Take along Gameboys & games, personal CD/cassette players (even for little kids), and you can get books on tape from the library.
* Do consider a portable DVD player, this makes 5 or 6 hour a day seem like 2 hours. It also cuts a lot of the unnecessary stops as the kids are involved in the movie playing.
* Here's a great packing tip form a mom of 3. To avoid the difficulty of hauling in a suitcase for every person into a hotel for the 1 night stops. Pack a 3 day bag into which each person contributes 3 days worth of clothes. This way you take one suitcase of clothes in every three days.
* Do pack a lightweight table cloth for outdoor lunch stops along the way.
* Do get postcards from every major destination along the way.
thanks