Easy methods to survive journeys with children? ideas for long car journeys with your kids

Easy methods to survive journeys with children? ideas for long car journeys with your kids

Here are ideas to help make your long car journey with babies and young children better:

Selecting the right time of day for your car adventure may help with your baby or toddler's mood for travelling. If you can drive during the night time while your small one sleeps quietly in the back, could make all the difference. Failing this, ensure your child is fed and dry before setting off. The more comfortable she is, the more content she will be to sit for longer period.

With children, you most likely do need to stop if you're traveling for upwards of two hours. Even if they don't need the loo, the opportunity to run around and stretch their legs would probably cheer them no end and reduce boredom. How many stops will you need? Add at least 45 minutes for each one to give you a realistic arrival time.

Portable DVD players are brilliant for car adventures – you can get yourself ones that hook over the back of the front car seats, or even dual ones with the intention that two children can look at a screen each. Have a stash of their most loved DVDs and you're just about done. MP3 players and iPods are a fantastic investment, too, that can be played through the car radio, plugged into those speakers - or, if your tolerance for Kipper stories on loop was exhausted a few miles back - listened to in suited headphones.

Stock up on necessary stuff for instance baby wipes and water.Lots of baby wipes are fundamental. Including bottles of drinking water, we put several big jerrycans of 5 and 10 litres of water in the boot, pretty much permanently. In time you’ll be more than happy you did too. (Spills, puke, poo, sand, mud etc.) We at the same time keep a roll of black bin bags in the boot as occasionally a complete set of clothing or shoes needs separated from whatever else until such time it can be dealt with correctly.

If small kids are asleep as you approach a destination and are going to ought to be awake for some time once you get there, start to wake them quickly to make sure they have time to surface slowly despite of having to be instantly alert once you arrive