20 Reasons You Should Travel With Your Kids

Alyssa Hollingsworth | October 17, 2016

Methods of Survival

My favorite methods create the acronym VIA BLIMPS: Video games, Imagination, Alphabet spotter, Books, Line stories, I-spy, Movies and shows, Puzzles, Songs.

Some of these are obvious, but a few that could be expounded on:

Imagination: On one of my favorite roadtrips, my mom, sister, and I spent hours imagining what our dream houses would look like. Occupy your kids with imagining places they’d like to go and things they’d like to do.

Line stories: Create a story one sentence at a time. One person in the car gives a sentence, and the next person in line has to build off it, and so on.

Songs: Though you can be a nice parent and play music your kids like, my parents also reserved the dreaded State Songs for when we were acting up. If we misbehaved too much, the educational songs came on, and we had to sing all the capitals of all the states (or, at least, all the states until our parents deemed us punished/started going crazy themselves–normally we just got through the first two songs). It was effective, and I still know the capital of Arizona.

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