When we’ll arrive?! Are we there yet?! - Patience, if the journey is long so we have to do is planning it different, make stop, find games based on the age of the child, appropriate music, and so on. Another good idea is to bring a portable DVD. However depending on whether they’re babies or children or adolescents' needs are different, which is why we give you some tips that may help you:

10 TIPS great:

1. The children just love to play to pretend! Simulates an exit away from home using your favorite toy or stuffed animal. You can sit in your seat of the car and pretend to visit the grocery store. Talking about safety rules while they play, even with young children, will reinforce the importance of using safety belts.
2. Prepare a backpack for each child. Put there some special items that will be used only in the car. Some of the things you could include are a cassette recorder and a book with pictures and a special toy that not block the drivers view, not upset him, and other passengers.
3. Bring drinks and snacks that are not dirty like small boxes of juice, rice crackers, cereal, granola bars and pretzels.
4. Keep a supply of products of "emergency" in the car like wet diapers, a flashlight, band-aid, water bottles, and so on.
5. Put a tablecloth of vinyl or a large towel on the back seat. So protect your car against the shedding of liquid and crumbs. That way you can relax and stop worrying about what kids can mess.
6. Choose the best time for long journeys. Chooses to make them sleep in their usual hour and enjoy the moments in which your child is sleeping normally. Stop the car every two hours or so and let your kids go out and run. The recreation areas are great for downloading your energy! Eat at family restaurants.
7. Never in the arms. No matter how well they are on our lap or how strong we hold them, in an inadvertently collision the arms open and the baby will fire.
8. Always use seat belts. Children imitate extended to the elderly. So if they see that we always used the belts, they’ll learn that their use is essential.
9. Where fit four does not fit five. Do not ever go out with more children than places available.
10. Commends his good behavior. Thus, will be the reasons to continue behaving well.

 

In the case of babies:

• Seizing their usual hours of sleep to make the trip.
• Carrying a bag on hand with food, water and some toys, you are most like the child.
• Stop frequently, every two hours.
• Deliver the toys one by one, to ensure that all grows tired quickly.
• If necessary heat the bottle, some gas stations have heaters.
• Keep the car ventilated. Open the window from time to time to renew the air.
• Caution with air conditioning, not only because it can cause colds, but because of the sharp difference in temperature to get the baby out of the car.

Children 3 to 10 years:

• Explain in advance how they will travel, what they're seeing, and so on. The children are afraid of uncertainty.
• Recovering the traditional children's games: "I Spy", "chained words", "rock paper scissors", "the form of clouds" ...
• Take some game that they like and with which they can easily play inside the vehicle.
• Seizing the rest areas or stop at the children's recreational spaces of cities for which they pass. Not only fighting boredom, it also relaxes the children and allows them to better withstand the journey.
• Bring a portable DVD and put some movie.