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[quote=Anonymous]We do multiple 8-10 hour road trips to visit family a year with our 3 kids and have since they were babies. I don’t love it, but it’s cheaper than flying and my dh is a terrible
flyer so we do it. One of our kids also gets carsick so screens are limited to the last 1.5-2 hrs of the trip other than audio (it’s “not
fair” that two can do screens and one can’t without puke so this is now the rule). I now make them pack their own bags full of snacks, notebooks, books, stickers, games, crafts, iPads, chargers, etc. If they don’t they will be hungry and bored. We listen to 1 or 2 podcasts as a family (how stuff works, wow in the world, smash boom best) and then everyone does their own thing. Coupled with a longer lunch break it goes by somewhat quickly.

There’s typically some drama and occasionally puking but we get through it. OP you’re the parent, you set the rules and boundaries. I tell my kids I’m not turning around 500 times and if they want screens for any part of the journey they need to chill and they know
I mean it. They also do not want to stoke the ire of the driver (dh) who does not listen to metal but will subject them to hours of Phish.[/quote]

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