Find out how to survive journeys with children? recommendations for long car journeys with your kids

Find out how to survive journeys with children? recommendations for long car journeys with your kids

Allow me to share ideas to help make your long car journey with babies and young children easier:

Selecting the best time of day for your car tour can assist with your baby or toddler's mood for travelling. If you can drive during the nighttime while your child sleeps silently in the back, could make all the difference. Failing this, ensure that your little one is fed and dry before setting off. The more relaxing she is, the more content she will be to sit for a longer time.

With small children, you seriously do need to stop if you're going more than two hours. Even if they don't require the loo, the chance to run around and stretch their legs would probably cheer them no end and relief boredom. How many stops will you need? Add around 45 minutes for each one to offer you a realistic arrival time.

Portable DVD players are perfect for car journeys – you could find ones that hook over the back of the front car seats, perhaps even dual ones to be able two children can look at a screen each. Get a stash of their preferred DVDs and you're good to go. MP3 players and iPods are an excellent investment, too, which enable yo to be played through the car radio, plugged into some speakers - or, if your tolerance for Kipper stories on loop was exhausted a number of miles back - listened to by the use of decent headphones.

Stock up on essentials for example baby wipes and water.Lots of baby wipes are a necessity. And also bottles of drinking water, we save several big jerrycans of 5 and 10 litres of water in the boot, pretty much permanently. At some point you’ll be more than happy you did too. (Spills, puke, poo, sand, mud etc.) We also keep a roll of black bin bags in the boot as often times a complete set of clothing or shoes needs separated from the rest until such time it can be dealt with correctly.

If small kids are lying down as you approach a destination and are going to should be awake for some time once you get there, start to wake them quickly so that they have the opportunity to surface slowly despite of having to be instantly awake once you arrive