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20 Toddler Road Trip Activities and Games that Will Keep Everyone Happy

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Great list of toddler road trip activities and toddler road trip games! These are the perfect road trip ideas with toddlers in order to keep them entertained and happy on a long road trip. As a family, we have taken many 4-hour road trips to Dallas to go and visit my husband's family. We have also driven to South Padre Island a time or two ...

How to Survive Potty Training While Traveling Long Distances in a Car

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If you are wondering how to manage potty training and travel, this post is for you. Here are tips and hacks for making potty training travel easier and less messy thanks to handy things like potty training mats, travel potty seats, and more! It may have been a mistake, but we decided to start potty training our 2-year-old ...

A Parent’s Guide to Car Sickness and How to Handle It with Ease

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Having someone get car sick on a road trip is the worst so these car sick remedies will have you handling your baby, toddler or yourself getting car sick with ease instead of freaking out about puke everywhere. The car was packed. We were on our way to visit family in a neighboring state. And then it happened. Our daughter got car sick and threw ...

The Great Big List of the Best Audiobooks for Family Road Trips

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Here you will find a great big list of the best audiobooks for family road trips! Discover old classics, new fantasies, educational stories, humorous narrators, and overall great audiobooks for family road trips that are sure to delight the youngest to the oldest in your vehicle, no matter if you are listening via books on tape, books on CD or a ...

Free Printable Road Trip Car Checklist to Prepare for a Long Road Trip

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Want to know how to prepare car for a road trip with a road trip car checklist? Then be sure to read all the great car tips for road trips below and download your free printable car checklist for road trip below. We want to help you get your car ready for a road trip by sharing all the car maintenance before long road trip tips and other prep that ...

What to Pack for a Family Vacation – FREE Packing Checklist Printable

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Heading out on a family road trip or vacation for the holidays soon? Here's a family vacation packing checklist so you won't forget anything! This post is sponsored by Pampers at Sam's Club but all opinions are my own. We are not native Texans. In fact, we've only lived here for the past three years. Both my family and my husband's family live ...

What Foods and Drinks to Pack for a Long Family Road Trip

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This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com on behalf of Tree Top. All opinions are my own. At the beginning of June, our family went on a massive family road trip. We drove from Central Texas to Omaha, Nebraska and then from Omaha, Nebraska to Indianapolis, Indiana, and then back home to Central Texas, in a massive 2800 mile road trip with four ...

4 Essentials for a Better Family Road Trip

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This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and Walmart Family Mobile. All opinions are mine alone. #Tips4Trips #CollectiveBias Summer has always been my favorite season. Blame it on the fact that I'm a summer baby myself, or that I hate being cold, or looked forward to not having school. I love it. And one of the best parts of summer ...

6 Tips for Taking Long Road Trips with Toddlers in Tow

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One of the biggest concerns I had about taking a vacation to Chincoteague, Virginia, last summer was the long road trip with our three young kids - a baby and twin three year olds. Traveling from Indianapolis, IN to Chincoteague, VA is a 12 hour drive, without any stops. And when you have a baby who is exclusively breastfed and doesn't take a ...

McDonald’s Happy Meal Books Program

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I am so excited to work with Katy from Indy With Kids and McDonald's of Central Indiana for this fun campaign! I love reading and my children love getting new books and eating McDonald's fries. So I am happy to announce that beginning November 1, 2013 McDonald’s USA invites families to celebrate the joy of reading with the Happy Meal ...

How to Play and Win at the Car Alphabet Game

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I can only assume that everyone who has ever traveled on a long-distance road trip (or even a short one) has played the alphabet game. But, if not, let me share it with you, and what the "Fagan house rules" are. The Alphabet Game is a game you play when you are trapped inside a car and have nothing to do but stare out the window, listen to ...