Car Journey Games

pub cricketHow to make long journeys bearable with kids!

Inspired by Jessica’s recent post, Three Special Things, I thought I’d share our family’s favourite car journey entertainments too.

I do not have an in-car DVD player, and I will resist buying one as long as I possibly can because I know that once we have one we will never go back to using our journey time to play family games together, or quietly contemplating life as we watch the world whizzing by outside.  Children live in a very hyped-up over-stimulated world already, and I personally believe that long car journeys are good for children in that they teach them about spending time more calmly: talking, singing, listening, and thinking.

Much of the time we listen to music or talk as a family.  There are often long silences while we are all lost in our thoughts staring at the countryside.  And on the whole we enjoy long car journeys (and we do them a lot!), but my children are not always angels and sometimes we do need something to entertain them and stop the bickering.  For times like this we have a collection of old favourites on standby Read more…

Three Special Things…

Mr TumbleMy little girl is a HUGE Mr Tumble fan. So much so that she reenacts the “spotty bag” routine and the mighty Tumble is one of the many reasons why we have chosen to attend Camp Bestival.

In preparation she has watched, many a time now, the episode where Justin goes to Wychwood festival and meets a family for some festival fun. Read more…

Car Journey Games

pub cricketHow to make long journeys bearable with kids!

Inspired by Jessica’s recent post, Three Special Things, I thought I’d share our family’s favourite car journey entertainments too.

I do not have an in-car DVD player, and I will resist buying one as long as I possibly can because I know that once we have one we will never go back to using our journey time to play family games together, or quietly contemplating life as we watch the world whizzing by outside.  Children live in a very hyped-up over-stimulated world already, and I personally believe that long car journeys are good for children in that they teach them about spending time more calmly: talking, singing, listening, and thinking.

Much of the time we listen to music or talk as a family.  There are often long silences while we are all lost in our thoughts staring at the countryside.  And on the whole we enjoy long car journeys (and we do them a lot!), but my children are not always angels and sometimes we do need something to entertain them and stop the bickering.  For times like this we have a collection of old favourites on standby Read more…

Three Special Things…

Mr TumbleMy little girl is a HUGE Mr Tumble fan. So much so that she reenacts the “spotty bag” routine and the mighty Tumble is one of the many reasons why we have chosen to attend Camp Bestival.

In preparation she has watched, many a time now, the episode where Justin goes to Wychwood festival and meets a family for some festival fun. Read more…