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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. They are 9 and 6. My ipad has no data plan, what can they do in the car ride? They are not carsick but just they are bored from looking at same scenery (trees, farms and a few houses) along the highway.

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honestly, parent better. Kids this age and in the age of portable electronics should be able to handle a 3.5 hr car ride and last a solid 5 hr without stops, jesus. Why do people allow their children to be whiny brats?

Download a few movies on the ipad and tell them to suck it up.

When I was growing up we drove from Boston to Myrtle beach with 3 kids across the backseat of a sedan.

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I completely agree.  My 11 year old can do 5-10 hour car rides now, and a 3.5 hour one has never been a big deal.  We have NEVER done screens in the car.  Mostly, we always have audiobooks on, and when we switch to music, we usually play a made up game we call "Stay or go" where we shuffle music on the iPhone and each one takes a turn of saying "go" to shuffle to something else or "stay" if they want to keep the song.  That way, everyone in the car has a chance to get a song they like every 3-4 songs.

Lots of snacks help, and building in an extra hour to stop somewhere and run like puppies helps a lot.  I went up and down from DC to New England at least 2x/month when my son was a toddler and preschooler, to help care for my aging parents, and I'd usually plan to stop twice on a 5-6 hour trip to let him run around somewhere, plus use the bathroom.  There are also special snacks we ONLY have on car trips, like Auntie Annie's if we can find it at a rest stop, or gummy bears (that just seems to be something we always want if we get a gas station treat snack.)  [/quote]

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