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Beginning with this weekend, we will be traveling at least once a month every month between now and October. All of these trips will be made by car. In honor of our upcoming adventures, I thought I’d bring you a little “Fact or Fiction” quiz about traveling with children.
1. Fact or Fiction? Leaving the house at 3:00 A.M. means your child will sleep for the first part of the trip. In our case, typically fiction. Once they got into the car, our children rarely went right back to sleep, but often stayed awake for hours.
2. Fact or Fiction? Allowing your children to watch movies on a portable DVD player maintains quiet in the backseat. Fact. It works for us everytime.
3. Fact or Fiction? Packing a lunch to eat in the car saves time and money and benefits your health. Fact. We only started doing this recently, but most of the time it beats whipping in and out of a fast food restaurant. I do try to include a special treat in everyone’s lunch to make it more enticing.
4. Fact or Fiction? The backseat will look like a war zone by the time you reach your destination. Fiction. Well, when our girls were younger, it sometimes happened. Now, though, our eleven-year-old is in charge of “The Bag” which holds their books and toys. Since she’s inherited some of her mother’s perfectionistic tendencies, she makes her younger sister use one thing at a time and return it neatly to the bag when she’s done.
5. Fact or Fiction? Every child is destined to ask at least once on the trip, “How much longer till we get there?” Fact (even when they were too young to tell time!)
Do you find these experiences to be true when traveling with your children?
how fun. those "facts or fiction" 🙂
Yes, yes, yes! I agree with all of your facts and fictions! And what fun way to write this post!
I agree with all of these – and I'm waiting for the day when my backseat won't be a disaster zone when we reach our destination!
Our kids are great travelers, b/c it's all they've ever known, always living b/t 7 & 13 hours away from their grandparents/my parents. The DVD player is our LIFESAVER, but we have a rule that it can't be turned on if the trip is less than 4 hours, and they also have to wait until after we're a couple hours into the trip, (b/c once it turns on, they will be its zombies until we arrive; so we'd like a little family convo time first. :-))
What a fun and insightful post, Tracey! =) I especially like that your older daughter helps out your younger daughter to keep things tidy.
Love your list! #1 usually is a fact for us. We've done a lot of travel during late night or early morning for that reason. Not sure how long that will last, but during our 10 hour trips, this is a big help. Unfortunately, #4 is more of a fact than fiction for us right now! We are working on this one! 🙂
Happy Memorial Day to you and your family!
Katie