Kids in the car

Looking at entertaining, educating and engaging our kids on car trips.

The car can truly be such a wonderful space for learning. Kids are stationary, there are less distractions and there is a huge variety of options of resources to engage in and conversations to be had. Even before we were travelling full time we spent a lot of time in the car and made good use of car learning. Driving to homeschool meet ups, which can often be spread out, boom! Car learning time. Trips to visit family. Driving to adventure locations. Family holidays. Even shorter car trips have ample opportunity for learning.

Car trips are also just a reality in the life of a parent (at least most of us). We need to get from a to b safely and need to keep our children entertained and happy to meet this goal. We all know that having screaming, whinging, fighting kids in the backseat is actually extremely distracting and dangerous so let’s try to avoid that with some easy ideas to make car trips as smooth as possible.