Here’s how to successfully complete a 10 hour car ride with your 3 children.
Yes. Let them watch movies. Lots and lots of movies.
In my opinion, Redbox movies and their kiosks are perhaps one of the greatest inventions ever.
Now I am not a person who advocates letting your children watch tv all day but for car trips I make an exception.
Over Thanksgiving I drove my kids to visit my parents for the week. My husband flew in Thanksgiving morning to make a guest appearance.
Typically, people describe a road trip by the weather, the traffic, or the snacks consumed.
Our trip, however, can be summed up by one word – movies.
I present to you the first journey of our trip…
…and because the first trip was so successful, here’s our return trip.
Happiness, contentment, and serenity (there was a moment of screaming from our two year old when my son put in “The History of Space” DVD but I’ve completely erased it from my memory).
All for the low low price of $10.44 round trip.
It may be $10.44 to Redbox but to me it was priceless.
Excellent!! Love the diagrams. ;o)
Nicely done. We only allow movie watching on long trips, too. The little movie-zombies think it’s the Best thing!
Priceless. The minivan we just got came with a DVD player installed in it and I’m pretty excited to use it on our next long road trip. Whatever it takes to make a peaceful drive, I’m all for it!
Such a good idea! And I love that you don’t have to return Red Box DVDs to the same place! We’ll definitely need to invest in a portable DVD player since our car doesn’t have one.
LOL! This was cute. As for Puss in Boots, were they disappointed? My son and I call that the fake Puss in Boots. It was terrible.
Do any children sleep on car trips any more?