Jill Smokler, AKA Scary Mommy
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Deborah Cruz, aka Truthful Mommy, is the creator of the magic that is The TRUTH about Motherhood. She is a wife, a writer, and semi-crunchy, work-at-home Ninja Mommy, who lives smack dab in the Midwest with her two beautiful little princesses minus the tiaras (on most days) bring the drama (times two) and her trusty sidekick, her husband, who she affectionately calls the Big Guy.
Road tripping with toddlers is like swallowing shards of glass and then trying to drink salt water. It’s painful. It’s awful and, most likely; someone’s going to get hurt. I found this out the hard way a couple summers ago.
The spring of 2009 we decided to turn a job interview into a mini family vacation. It was not a good idea and I don’t recommend it, no matter how cheap you may be. We were on the road for 12 glorious hours. Yes, that is correct, 12 hours with a 4 and barely turned 2 year old. It was even worse than it sounds.
My, otherwise, sweet loving girls never liked to be confined in those 5 point harnesses on a good day on a trip across town. Imagine if you dare, their state of mind faced with taking their very first long road trip imprisoned in those wonderful harnesses. I would have jumped out of my own skin had you tried to buckle me into that claustrophobic, thigh pinching torture chair…for twelve hours.
My oldest insisted on asking, every 20 minutes or so, “Are we there yet?” I always thought that was a funny spoof on parenting but now I realize that it is, in fact, the truth of traveling with children. I never realized how frazzling that could be to me as a person. I thought “those” moms had no patience. I’ve since realized that it can actually bring you to the brink of insanity and make a grown woman cry, almost inconsolably, if asked in the right voice and enough times over a 12 hour period.
While the oldest was hitting us high with the barrage of “Are we there yet”s the youngest was freaking out of her ever-loving mind about a gnat. Yes, a gnat! Apparently, it must have been the scariest, meanest, baby eating gnat you ever did see because, God bless her little bitty heart, she screamed bloody murder for at least 3 hours of the trip. Oh, the humanity!
In summation, my 4 year old was asking if we were there yet, every single second of every single minute we were on the road. Concurrently, my 2 year old was being terrorized by a gnat and screamed so highly pitched, that all the dogs of the world were seeking her out to eat her and end their misery. I was on the verge of losing the battle for my sanity and my poor beloved husband was trying to plot his course to the nearest gunsmith to rent a gun and buy a bullet…or four.
I pulled out my bag of tricks because obviously the 1200 DVDs that I brought were not holding their attention. We colored. We sang, only the songs that they knew, so “Twinkle, Twinkle”,”Mary had a little Lamb”, “Happy Burtday to you!” and ” Five, Five Dolla..Five Dolla foot long!” Yes, my 2 year old was obsessed with the Subway commercial jingle. That jingle played incessantly during that road trip. My 2 year old sang it every time. It was the cute the first 100 times or so. Someone needed a lesson in moderation. Interrupted only by the “Are we there yet?” inquiry of her sister. So brink of insanity, on way to gun shops, we stop for lunch and we try and let the girls stretch their legs at some wayward Wendys in West Virginia. Not my idea, have you seen Wrong Turn?
We get lunch. Food’s not cooked completely. No problem, Mommy to the rescue. While I’m busy letting my food get cold so that I can supervise the pimply face kid at the Wrong Turn Wendys actually cook my children’s chicken flavored whatsamanuggets, a fly dares to descend upon the table. All hell breaks lose. Toddlers were jumping everywhere, screaming, crying, and running away in terror. I did mention it was a fly and not Godzilla, right? Not a horsefly, just a regular old housefly!
In true fix the situation fast fashion, I take off my flip-flop and kill that sucker dead…right there in front of all the great patrons of the Wrong Turn Wendy’s. Then for no reason at all, my youngest yells at the absolute top of her lungs “EWWWW, FAArTED.Stinks”. Absolutely, mortified, I skulk out of the Wrong Turn Wendy’s with my little girls in hand and a dead Godzilla fly on my Flip-Flop. Only to realize, she hadn’t farted at all but had actually blown out her diaper. Longest 12 hours of my life.
In the end, we may be a little worse for the wear but really, I think of it as a testament to our family dynamic that we all arrived safely at our destination, bypassing any and all asylums and gun shops…save for that poor Godzilla fly at the Wrong Turn Wendys.
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Jill.
Thank you so much for having me. It is truly my honor to be here on Scary Mommy. You rock my socks off lady:)
XO
Debi
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I am ‘blessed’ with a very good memory and remember vividly all the road trips my parents forced my through, especially those in Norway and Finland (look pine trees, look more pine trees, look pine trees….for 14 rain soaked days) so I can honestly say: never ever ever ever with my own children. The hubs can take the car with the kids to the south of France if he wants, I’m going by air.
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LOL! I know this well. I have told my husband this very thing. You don;t have to take me through hell twice to learn my lesson:) Have a safe flight!
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Oh, man:
do I ever know what you are talking about.
Life, you can’t make this s**t up.
Stumbled it, honey, b/c it’s so true to life funny.
You know, safety in numbers and all against all those that say their family trips are a “dream.”
vs a nightmare.
xo love you, girl.
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Thanks sweet lady. You are right ,I can’t make this shit up. I wouldn’t want to:)LOL
You know how I feel about all the sunshine and unicorns, smoke up your ass stories that everything is “good” all the time. Not in the real world baby, at least not in mine. Mine is dirty and messy and I love it…mostly because the crazy is what makes the good times so great!
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I feel your pain but I can also one up you with 2 teenagers and a 12 y/o, in a minivan, for a 7 hour trip to Virginia.
Ugh!
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I’m going to have to take your word for it. I am assuming there was more bickering but less crying:) And the fact that you were also on the hell trip to Virginia ( same as us) is just prof positive that you must go through hell to get to paradise:)LOL Happy Road tripping my friend!
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That was funny. I have three girls 8-3, and the longest trip we have ever taken is the two hour drive to my parents house. We have just mastered that trip. I could not imagine a 12 hour drive.
One day ,my friend, it will come. Just be prepared and maybe wear some headphones turned up really loudly or dose them with Benadryl (LOL..I JEST, I don’t advocate drugging your children..even if they do seem possessed in a car on a long car ride)
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And then when the “vacation” is over, you get to turn around and drive home;-)
You are telling me..hardly seems worth it when you put it like that!
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That is hilarious! I never had that problem when mine were little. They knew they were going to ‘Ma’s house’ so they were pretty good even when they were tiny. Now is another story. Just going to the grocery store is a lesson in threats, pleading and crying. (That’s from the back seat) Mom in the front trying to ignore the 12 and 8 year old in the back trying to kill each other until her head explodes. (That’s me) All in the space of 7 minutes – hell on earth. Sometimes I wish they were little again! I definitely feel for you!
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7 minutes???OMG< someone would not survive the cross country drive for sure. You'd end up a kid or two less:)LOL
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True. And this is an almost daily occurence. I usually go to the store by myself, blissfully alone. They wonder why I take blood pressure medication!
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All I wanna know is after that hell, did whoever had the interview walk in and demand the goddamned job (or at least reimbursement for the unvacational mini family vacation)? How was the trip back? Ha!
The longest I’ve driven w/kids in tow is 4 hours from DC to NC when the kids were 9, 7, and 1. We stopped once but luckily the boy slept most of the way. I’m not looking forward to the trip in his full-fledged twoness later this year. So not.
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Yes, my husband got the job ( Only to be downsized 10 months later) but the even better trip was driving through DC traffic headed home for Christmas. DC alone took 4 hours, stop and stop:)LOL
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I understand the point of the “Wrong Turn” example, but as a West Virginian, I’m so sick of that trope. It’s incredible difficult to dispel the idea that West Virginia really is like that terrible, offensive flick–all of WV, mind you–so I hate that you used it. I hope that you don’t think so lowly of my state or its people.
Amber,
I apologize. I by no means meant to offend anyone by that statement. It was careless on my part. I have only been thought WV a handful of times and it’s normally at night time and always backwoods, my only reference is the Wrong Turn Movies not to mention, my judgement was cloudy and everything was a bit Wrong Turn on that road trip..it had more to do with the children and less with the state of WV.
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I understand. I always feel defensive when people bring up that movie (or Deliverance) because, for many people, it’s the only association they have with WV. The hills can be intimidating at night. Hopefully you’ll get to see us in the daylight! Right now’s a great time because the leaves are changing colors.
I’ll have to add that to one of my must see fall spots. Thanks for reminding me that I can’t judge anything by a movie:)
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I know your pain. I’m from NJ…in fact I grew up 20 minutes away from Seaside Heights. We might not get the yocal, red neck bs you poor souls get, but we get our fair share of abuse because of those idiots on TV. We just moved to MD from the Jersey Shore and a good number of my hubby’s coworkers who didn’t relocate were convinced it was backwards and red neck down here. They’re missing out. Where we are reminds us of all the good parts back in NJ, minus all the traffic, stupid draw bridges and Bennies (what we called the *obnoxious* summer tourists. The Jersey Shore cast qualify as uber bennies.)
I’ve heard WV is super beautiful in the Fall. Enjoy it!
What??You mean it’s NOT all Situations,Sopranos, Jerseylicious and Real Housewives of NJ? Oh my, come to think of it..you guys have it a lot worse off than West Virginia as far as tv is concerned. But you do have Chris Christie and I like him:)
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That is so true! The only time I’ve seen WV on TV recently was the road kill gourmet chef (yes, it’s a thing) on Penn & Teller’s Tell a Lie. It was a little gross, but at least the people sounded reasonably intelligent.
Alas, that is where you and I will have to part ways in terms of politics. LOL I’m used to be one of the greedy, conniving, selfish people Christie campaigned against. I was public school teacher up until April when we moved down here for DH’s job and I became a SAHM. I won’t even get started on what all the cuts are doing to my beloved homestate. I try to stay apolitical…but this guy rubbed me the wrong way.
It’s a shame wrong turn Wendy’s was in West Virginia it actually one of the most beautiful states. You should travel back in the fall and let your children experience the change in foliage. Maybe when they are older and less “are we there yet.”
I know. I feel bad for sinking WV with that ship. I;ve only been through there a few times in my life and it’s usually when it’s dark so my only real reference is the Wrong Turn Movies:(
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So, did you get the job? I can just see the interview now…
Interviewer: Why do you think you’re well-qualified for this position?
You: Because I will slap you across the face with my Godzilla-crushing flip flop if you don’t hire me.
Interviewer: Well, yes. Erm. We do think you’re a good fit.
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LOL!Yes, my husband got the job and we only had to make the trip about 6 times over the next 6 months. Life is cruel sometimes.
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what? no one got car sick? it’s not a real road trip in our family until someone gets car sick! :)
Well, only if you count me. I’m the one who always gets car sick but in the grand scheme of things, that was the least of my worries on that drive:)
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We did a road trip from Edmonton, Alberta Canada to Disneyland a couple of years ago. Two 12 hour days of driving, in a Volvo sedan, with 3 boys (ages 10 months, 4 yrs and 7 yrs) and No Patience Daddy, and NO DVD SYSTEM!!!!! I STILL want to poke forks into my eyes at the thought of it.
Christine,
My teeth just started instinctively gritting at the thought of that road trip. You are a stronger woman than I, I would have surely jumped out the window:)
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SUCH a good post! So funny that everyone seems to be talking about road-tripping with toddlers this week, I was literally just reading this list (http://www.skinnyscoop.com/list/askananny/roading-tripping-with-toddlers) of tips when I came across your blog entry too. We’re all on the same page!
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LOL! Great minds think alike:)
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Oh, I know this too well. Last time we tried a ‘day trip’? 4 stops for a 45-minute ride. Ended up worth it, though. :-)
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You are much more optimistic for me. WE usually end up with at least 2 potty breaks just to get across town to the mall.Thank God they are getting older and their bladders a little more sturdy:)LOL
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Two bits of advice that I lived through and my Mom swears by:
1. Drive at night.
2. Dramamine.
Haven’t tried it myself yet, but I know for a fact I hardly remember the 12 hour drives we took as kids…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!BEst advice I’ve gotten ever.My husband wants to drive to Disney (18 hours). I may fly out and meet them there not sure I can survive 18 hours, I;m sure it will turn into at lead 36 hours. YIKES!
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I don’t think there’s a good age to take a road trip with your kids until they move out, then you can go by yourself.
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I am inclined to agree with you 100%! LOL
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We drove to Disney World with my two and a half year old daughter and my 13 year old niece. That was fun. That’s a lie. It was hell. My husband swore we would never drive with kids anywhere ever again.
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See,t his is my fear. IT’s an 18 hour drive ( if you drive it straight with no children) I think we’d have to be insane to do that drive but then again…we’ll see. If I survive, it should make one hell of a post:)LOL
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Dear god. And I thought my 5 hour plane trips were bad.
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Any trip with little ones is fair game to drama. I think being cooped in a car for 12 hours just makes it almost surreal. Believe me, when we stopped at that Wendy’s it was pretty hard to talk myself back into that damn car.
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Wow! I never ever ventured past 4.5 hours when they were that young! I’m not only impressed that you made it the 12 hours … but that you bothered to attempt coming back! I might have just sold the car, bought 4 plane tickets with the money and figured out the rest when I got home. Either that or just sent for our things and stayed wherever the heck we were.
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Kim,
That totally would have been a great idea. Unfortunately, my brain was too fried to even figure that much out.LOL
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Over the summer we drove from Southern California to Northern California for a week on a houseboat. We had 2 dogs, 2 16yr olds, 11, 7 and a hubby that hates being in any vehicle with any children. All in a mini van loaded down with all our stuff. It was 10 hours. I did not hear the 16yr olds threaten to through out the 11yr old out the window or punch anyone in the face. I was lucky. And they said they would do it again. Next year is a staycation.
OMG< I would not have survived. Teenagers scare me.When our girls hit the teens, we will only travel by plane. They fight like UFC champs NOW. I can't imagine when they are older:( YIkes. Shards of glass I tell ya!
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I am laughing! I don’t know why really. This past summer I embarked on my own 4 day,12hr road trip by myself with my 4yr old son and twin 2 1/2yr old daughters. There was nothing funny about the drive what so ever! Even the countless side of the road potty “breaks” were a strain on patience. Did I mention we stayed in an empty rental house with no furniture? Sleeping on an air mattress with a 4 yr old is not advisable.
OMG…Yeah that sucks! You had an extra 2 year old and no real bed. YIKES. NO BUENO. At least we were put up in a luxury hotel and spoiled rotten while we were there. My condolences, you have experienced the swallowing of glass shards first hand.
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Oh my friend.
This will keep even the seasoned of mothers out of their cars for awhile.
I laughed hysterically about the subway commercial!
What we do for our kids!
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Oh the five dolla, five dolla foot long is seared into my brain as deeply as the first time I walked in on my parents having “adult” special time.YIKES! Oh shite, now that image is in my brain .Time to go wash my brain out with soap!LOL
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Ugh, 12 hours??!! I avoid even a 2 hour road trip with the kids. We love to travel, but we tend to fly places, especially right now since the young one is under two and still free. :-)
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You are wise! I don;t recommend driving with children…EVER!!!
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Had to laugh at the “Are we there yet?” I too, always thought it was a Hollywood movie thing. Its not.
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No it is what the actually honestly do. IN fact, they now like to ask me just driving cross town. I am convinced that they are trying to drive me mad…one car ride at a time.
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Oh, how I wish I could forward this to my in-laws who expect us to do this every single Christmas with 4 kids (3 under 8 & a teen). We have tried to explain the h**l we endure on road trips to deaf ears and feel guilty till New Years Day. I’d love to send this along with a “See, it’s not you! It’s me! I love you, but I love/need what’s left of my sanity MORE!”
Perhaps,I should record the five dolla foot long song, along with a random almost non stop barrage of :”Are we there yet?”s and put it in the mail with a stinky munchkin who constantly pokes them in the eye..maybe, then maybe…they will understand:) Happy travels my friend!
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When my brothers and I were young, my parents would drive at night so that we were asleep for most of the trip.
Obviously, wise people!
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I feel for you it must of been very stressful.
I think I lucked out with my daughter as my Miss 4 is a pretty seasoned traveller by now, even surviving a 14 hour flight from Australia to LA unscathed, and the journey dosen’t seem to phase her too much so long as the reward at the end is good enough.
Her high flying lifestyle is a bit of a running joke at daycare as between her holidays with me and the ones with her dad she always seems to be heading off somewhere. She did her first road trip (9 hours) at 10 months and pretty much slept through it all. Probably the worst trip was the midnight flight across the country in a totaly sold out plane with then hubby (her father) and MIL in tow when she was about 18 months old. Most of the stress was in fact caused by the so called adults around me and not by my daughter. Other flights I’ve done since then have been solo and no big drama although all kids have their moments especially when tiered, hungry and not in their normal environment.
Explaining where your going and trying to make it sound as exciting as possible is one tip that has helped me reduce the stress levels. Getting them involved in the process throughout from packing to reading the map and making up little games along the way is good too. And I always pack a few snacks, a water bottle and some books, toys or a favorite teddy etc to keep her entertained. Comfy clothes are a must, for you and them. And when driving breaking up the journey into 3-4 hours chunks with a 15 or 30 minute pit stop in between also helps. As does either doing the bulk of the journey early morning or late at night when their most likely to sleep through it.
Loads of great tips! Thank you, my seasoned traveling friend:)
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That fly totally deserved it. Frankly, I’m surprised you didn’t whip off that flip flop sooner and start whacking yourself in the face with it.
We have already notified our family that we are not traveling across the country to visit them for at least five years.
Girl,
YOu know if they would have been 5 inch heels I probably would have used them to end it all.That trip was BRUTAL!
You are a wise woman to tell them ahead of time that you will not risk your sanity and life to drive cross country. It is certainly NO BUENO!!!
XO
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Things that have saved me on trips with toddler twins: ear plugs, lollipops (plug it up!), a bag of “distractomatics” – cheap toys that can be pulled out and distributed every 20 minutes or as needed.
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EAR PLUGS!!!!! That’s what I need. THat and a gallon of Dramamine:) Thank God the girls are a little older and can be entertained by NIntendo DS and educational APPS and NETFLIX:)
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Oh my gosh! What a crazy road trip/vacation Debbie! I would NOT have survived! My 3 yr old hates being strapped into the car seat and can barely make a 3 hour car ride to Seattle to visit relatives. Yikes for 12 hours driving. Brownie points to you for making it to the destination. Your story had me in tears at parts as I was laughing so hard. Very entertaining Scary Mommy Moment. I *loved* it!
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It had me in tears living it too…but probably not for the same reason:)LOL
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And I thought going grocery shopping with my kids was bad. Ha. The only long trips I have ever attempted with my kids were by train, when the two oldest were 2 and 10 months old. It was crazy keeping them on the seats. (Trains here in India are too dirty for a kid to play on the floor.) One trip was 24 hours and the other was 16 hours. The last trip was 2 years ago and since then we haven’t traveled anywhere with them.
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24 hours?16 hours???OMG, you are an amazing mother with the patience of a priest. NO way could I be trapped in a moving vehicle ( of any type) for that long with my girls.WOW! you go girl!
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More power to you. There is no way I could have survived that trip(unless I was doing the driving–can you say, tune everything out). Heck, even a 3 hour trip was the longest 3 hours of my life. 12 hours…nope. I like to keep what’s left of my sanity.
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12 hours, there is no tuning out. Those girls of mine are loud and will be heard:)LOL Crazy kids. That was the trip where Mama almost didn’t survive.
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Of course it’s only funny when it happens to someone else. This is exactly why we keep putting off our “grand” family vacation. I don’t think we could handle it when sometimes even the short trip to my parents turns into a headache. One trick we’ve learned is to turn on the tunes really loud. My kids actually stop crying pretty quick. But will it work for 12 hour? I don’t think so.
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NOTHING works for 12 hours..believe me I tried! But someone suggested Dramamine…that just may work:)LOL Drugs not hugs?
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If I didn’t know better, I would say I’d been on that EXACT same road trips down to the flies, blown out diaper, loud proclamation of farting in a restaruant, etc. Road tripping with toddlers is like swallowing shards of glass. GENIUS!!!
LOL! Road tripping with toddlers is a dangerous game to play:) YOu never know what you are going to get or what they will decide to say or do:)
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I know my toddler would never last 12 hours. The last time we tried to go three hours away I thought she was never going to stop screaming. I am dreading our first airplane flight here in the next week; the thought of trying to contain a 2 year old on my lap is not the most pleasant…
I’m hoping the flight went well. I’ve been hearing that children seem to be more equipped to fly than to ride in the 5 point hell harnesses that they must ride in when in a car. Hope you all have a pleasant and safe flight. Happy travels.
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We made the mistake of taking our almost toddler on a 6 hour road trip, funny enough, also in WV. I think it would have been ok, but we didn’t calculate the reaction our son would have crossing a mountain chain. Won’t make that mistake again! He screamed the whole way up the mountain and the whole way switch-backing down the mountain (about 3 hours). I tried everything in my arsenal, but he was not having it. Funny enough, the 2hr plane ride he took 2 months after that fateful mountainous trip- he was just fine. No tears, no problem. But now he starts screaming if he’s been in the car longer than an hour. I think he’s expects mountains to appear and torture him. Another road trip? NO WAY.
Poor little guy. When we lived in TN we used to come back and forth between TN and Chicago and my then 6 month old was not crazy for those magically appearing mountains either. I ,however, was deathly afraid of traveling with my girls after the WV trip.We’ve not traveled further than a 4 hour drive since then.I;m just not willing to take the chance:)
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