Your savior on long car trips
Yes, we buckled under and got a backseat DVD player in our minivan….so shoot me for not playing the License Plate Game and other more creative car games, but boy does a movie keep the squabbling siblings quiet!
The only problem is that too many hours of looking at a small moving screen in a gently moving vehicle gets at least one of my kids mildly carsick.
Here’s another idea that I found on the tech site Mashable to keep your little darlings occupied — downloadable audio books from AudibleKids.
From the Mashable post:
“The new site, called AudibleKids, has about 4,000 titles from 75+ publishers available at the time of the launch, with exclusive stories from the likes of R.L. Stine (who didn’t love Goosebumps?)”
If your kids are part of the iPod army, you’re all set.
If not, no worries; other mp3 players are compatible and you can also burn to a CD through iTunes or stream from a computer.
Ease on down the road….
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March 31st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Three years ago, before my daughter (then 14) got her own iPod, we planned a cross country trip from California to Illinois. My daughter was not that enthused about the trip, so my father in law made sure that his laptop (with DVD capability) could be powered from within the car.
If she had been younger, perhaps audio books (which were then available on CD and cassette) would have done the trick.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I remember one particularly long road trip with my then-6yo son. This was before incar entertainmenet systems were very affordable, so we handed him the laptop to keep himself occupied. Which worked great until he too became carsick, and projectile vomited strawberry pancakes all over himself and the interior of the car. God bless the tyke, he managed to keep the mess OFF the computer.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:13 am
** Hi oemperor, sometimes you can justifiably yell at them to “look out the window” because there’s stuff to see, but other times….maybe not, so it’s good to have backup.
** Hi BrandyS — I hear you on that one; my son tends to get carsick and in fact we had a little barf-o-moment just last week on a short road trip. Gee, thanks for the strawberry pancakes note, that’s a lovely mental image.
May 16th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
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