My son hates road trips! Any advice to make it more bearable?
@Kittykarina25 (247)
United States
July 24, 2008 1:02pm CST
My son is 19 months now and we recently went to visit my family that lives 3 1/2 hours away. Well at first he was fine then the last hour and a half he started crying. He wanted to get out of the car seat, nothing calmed him down. Same thing on the trip back. Well we have a trip coming up that is an 18 hour drive, so we are going to be stopping alot to let him walk around as well as get a hotel etc... I was just wondering if anyone had that same problem with their little ones and if so, how do you keep them happy. I know in time he will grow out it but this trip is coming up fast and I do not want to be miserable the whole way down and then redo it when we come back a week and a half later. Any advice would be helpful? Thanks!
1 response
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
24 Jul 08
My daughter is 18 months old. She is normally never in the car for more than 2 hours at a time on a road trip and she normally sleeps most of the way. When she does not fall asleep I usually try to distract her with books and toys to play with, so the time passes by faster for her.
@Kittykarina25 (247)
• United States
25 Jul 08
Thank you for the ideas. I think two hours is the cut off time for toddlers in a car seat, my son would get mad after two hours it seemed. So I think we will be stopping alot. Books and toys are a good idea. I think I'll try that. Thank you for responding.
