How not to drive across country with kids

Is the question most inexperienced parents will pose. The question and answer is simple. Start at an early age. Yes Virginia this sounds so simple, but it really is. Our first child experienced the Grand Canyon, before his first Dr. visit. We traveled 3.5 hours with our cute newborn, who only woke up 3 times. It is just like the jittery mother and father who mute all sounds and tread softly throughout the house hoping baby Timmy or Susie sleeps soundly through the night. Forget it, run the vacuum, crank the blender, process the disposal and the best trick of them all take a car ride with the stereo playing. Your child will be deprived of the automobile experience, if you neglect the open road. Back to the initial blog title. We will start our trip off in the evening. Reversing a typical driver’s schedule. Start at 6pm and end at 1:00 p.m. the next day. OK, DOT might have troubles with this, if we were commercial drivers. Our children will typically sleep from 10 p.m - 7:00 a.m. We have also reinforced the entertainment department for the kids. The back seat entertainment department is fortified with DVD TV Monitor, Nintendo Game Cube, 4 head phones to silence game and TV activities, and education materials like books and paper diaries. The kids will be sleeping most of the night, allowing me to drive until 6:00 a.m. This will enable the Mrs. to sleep and complete the first leg of our driving mission in the morning – 18 hour stroll.