Scenario: Road Trip, Three Kids in the back - How Do you entertain them?

[AB Editor]

Afternoon,

How do you keep three kids "happy" for long, summer road trips?

I require some professional advice, and anecdotes please :)

I'd also like to hear about failed attempts!

TIA.

[China Doll]

'How do you keep three kids "happy" for long, summer road trips? '

^^^ Horse tranquilser strengh sedative should do it.

[sunny-dave]

Duct Tape ...

[Mick-Talbot]

Driving on the wrong side of the road in France gets them well excited.

[ummmm]

Keep them up the night before....they will sleep.

[mccfluff]

gagg them and thrown them in the boot. or leave them at home
send them on by parcel force

[Traci66]

Plenty of Valium, for you not the kids.

[jno]

depends on their ages and interactions with each other

[gness]

Stick a tenner to the windscreen. First child to spot the escaped kangaroo reported on the news gets the tenner. ;-)

[gness]

Another tenner on windscreen. Bucket full of beads. Length of string. First child to string 500 beads gets tenner. Brake gently.

[funnygirl]

Play eye spy!

I often play with grownups on longish journey to count how many Mercedes we can spot!!

[Arksided]

Pull over and let 'em walk it. at least you won't have to listen to 'are we there yet'

[erin-x]

I always had my personal cd player to keep me occupied. I was quite happy watching the cars go by and listening to music. Either that or my cousin and I would just find a million ways to irritate each other! :-)

[Mick-Talbot]

Portable DVD player

lots of spongebob DVD's ...and a few DVD's for the kids too.......maybe SAW or The Human Centipede

[AB Editor]

No one has suggested calpol yet...

[gness]

Tenner, donated by Mick T. on windscreen. Loads of paper and coloured pencils. Child who designs the most avatars by the end of the journey gets the tenner.

[gness]

Tenner on windscreen. First child to open Calpol gets tenner.

[Traci66]

Calpol made one of my girls really hyper, nasty, evil stuff.

[missprim]

If money is no object how about these?
http://www.argos.co.u...htm#pdpProductReviews

[Psybbo]

Put them in the boot