How do your kids do on long drives? My son doesn't do so well. He's good for about an hour and after that he demands to get out of the car. I can understand not wanting to be stuck in a car all day but a couple of hours drive to the coast isn't that bad, is it? This is not a question I would ask my kid, by the way, because I know what his answer would be.

One way we try to make road trips more bearable is playing music especially for the trip. Remember the days of mix tapes? Just like that! When a song really speaks to Kellan, he cannot get enough.  Last year it was "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" by the Beatles and we listened to it too many times to count during a car trip to Seattle. 

This year I'm going to make him a playlist of songs he already loves and a few new ones with themes he relates to. Hopefully we can avoid repeating the same song over and over again. I played Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" for Kellan yesterday and he was hooked after thirty seconds. That one is definitely going in the mix.

Do you listen to special music or books on tape? How do you make summer car trips fun?