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A car trip or vacation can turn into a wonderful adventure when the children are happy. When they become bored and unhappy it can turn into a miserable trip.
When you have children that small you have to stop a lot and let them stretch their little legs and run around. It is not good for children or adults to sit for long periods at a time without stretching their legs. It is always good to get out and walk around and get some fresh air.
Look at things along the way. Now they have rest stops with picnic tables and snack machines. You can walk around in the rest stop area. Always keep the children in your site at all times in these places.
Some things that you might want to have in the car are the following:
Things for them to write and color with and the paper that goes along with it.
Now they have all sorts of little portable games that you can get for them. The game boys are expensive but they have cheap ones to. There is the Mini Magnetic write pads that you can get and other cheap hand held games.
A cooler with juice in it and other snack type food that they can eat, like carrot sticks, apples and other fruit that they may like.
Wet wipes or baby wipes for when the hands get dirty from eating the snacks.
The child’s personal pillow and blanket and a favorite toy will help to keep the child comfortable when taking a long car trip or vacation.
Another thing to consider taking on the trip is a tape for the tape player that they can sing along to. If you don't have a tape player then sing without one.
When they start to fight, pretend to see a monkey in a tree or some other high place. They will look for more for at least 20 minutes. You can also pretend to see elephants and other animals that might spark the child's interest. This works other times besides when you are going on vacation.
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