How can you survive journeys with children? secrets for long car journeys with your kids

How can you survive journeys with children? secrets for long car journeys with your kids

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

Choosing the right time of day for your car traveling can assist with your baby or toddler's mood for travelling. If you can drive through the night while your kid sleeps calmly in the back, may make all the difference. Failing this, be sure that your young child is fed and dry before setting off. The more peaceful she is, the more content she will be to sit for for a longer time.

With children and kids, you really should stop if you're journeying for upwards of two hours. Even if they don't want the loo, the possibility to run around and stretch their legs will probably cheer them no end and relief boredom. How many stops will you need? Add perhaps 45 minutes for each one to provide 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, including dual ones with the intention that two children can enjoy a screen each. Get a stash of their fisrt choice DVDs and you're just about done. MP3 players and iPods are a very good investment, too, and can be played through the car radio, plugged into a set of speakers - or, if your tolerance for Kipper stories on loop was exhausted a number of miles back - listened to by using suitable headphones.

Stock up on necessary stuff such as baby wipes and water.Lots of baby wipes are very important. Including bottles of drinking water, we keep several big jerrycans of 5 and 10 litres of water in the boot, pretty much permanently. At some point you’ll be pleased you did too. (Spills, puke, poo, sand, mud etc.) We as well keep a roll of black bin bags in the boot as typically a complete set of clothing or shoes needs separated from whatever else until such time it can be dealt with carefully.

If small kids are sleeping as you approach a destination and are going to must be awake for some time once you get there, start to wake them quickly to make sure they have a possibility to surface slowly rather than having to be instantly awake as soon as you arrive