Comments on: Summer Survey: Share Your Favorite Tips for Traveling with Kids

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:15:16 +0000

As much as possible, we plan for the drive to be fully part of the vacation. This means that we don’t just consider the number of days at the “destination” but we will increase the overall drive time in order to make it more fun and less tedious (and this often means less time at the destination but we’ve found it works out all around). We usually try to stop every 2-3 hours and will look up local attractions or other points of interest. We’ll spend anywhere from 30 minutes to four hours at a stop. If we’re in for a long haul to begin with, then this means we’ll incorporate an overnight (or two) into our drive but, again, we try to give the overnight it’s own purpose rather than just crashing into a motel bed at 11pm and waking back up to be in the car at 7am.

I know that trips can’t always be this flexible, but the first step is to start thinking outside the box about the drive.

By: Quinn

Quinn — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:02:02 +0000

I posted on my children’s favorite activity during our recent car trip, but you’d need a MacBook for it.

http://insidethewhitepicketfence.blogspot.com/2009/07/back-seat-boredom-buster.html

By: Kim from Canada

Kim from Canada — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:39:26 +0000

We play the alphabet game all the time. Taking turns we name items that start with each letter of the alphabet (animals, food, etc.). Another alphabet game is a hunting game where you have to spot the letters of the alphabet on road signs, starting at A – you’d be surprised how hard this can be sometimes.

Or, depending on age, the geography game where someone starts off naming a geographical place and the next person in line uses the last letter of the place to name another place – and so on.

Name ten things that you are thankful to God for.

We’ll also make up a story together by each person adding a sentence in turn – start with ‘once upon a time there was a…’ and each person can take the story in any direction. Very imaginative stuff with this one – can be quite funny.

One more – the colour game. Name 5 (or more) things that are purple, or green, etc.

Happy travels!