Darlings Mp3
Mummy, are we there yet?
With over 200 hundred miles yet to travel, this question from the little darlings in the back can irritate the nerves unless you take some corrective.
On the outward journey the question was ‘Mummy, are we there yet?’ And, despite the fact that the holiday home was still four hours away, the question kept coming every five minutes. This certainly annoys the older kids and, tension within the confines of the car can start to rise.
The last thing the weary driver needs as she gives her full attention to the busy lanes, is someone distracting her.
Finding a way to keep the kids occupied is a must.
The ‘I Spy’ game is good for maybe half an hour well, that is providing everyone is concentrating.
She spied something beginning with w s and of course we all thought this meant windscreen. But windscreen it wasn’t and many miles later nobody got the answer. And what do you know, her nibs got her steering wheel and her windscreen muddled up! She lost some brownie points for that.
What happens when everyone gets tired of this game? Well, there’s always ‘Give Me a Clue’ but, some of those end up in almighty rows because the clue was a bit off. No thanks, a row in the back seat of the car is not a great recipe for an enjoyable journey.
So, what is the long term solution to prevent four energetic kids from getting bored?
I read an article about audio books on the internet which gave me some ideas. We had to dig a bit into our hard earned cash but it was worth it. We bought each of them an MP3 player, downloaded some children’s audiobooks from the net and as Shakespeare might say, ‘the rest is silence’.
And, silence it was because the audiobooks we chose were fairly lengthy, now, not as long as War and Peace (60 hours) but long enough to keep the little darlings quiet for most of the journey.
We had toyed with the idea of burning some audiobooks onto CD’s and letting everyone hear the same story, but, this was bound to spark another row. “I don’t like Shakespeare, I don’t like Superman, I don’t like Roald Dahl etc..etc…’
I would advise you to allow the children some choice here too, so that they do not feel forced to listen to something they might not be too interested in.
It even makes sense to look ahead to the English curriculum of your local schools for inspiration. Huckleberry Finn seems to be an evergreen.
When they get a little older, the daily trips on the school bus could easily be put to good use by listening to some of the classic literature titles or language audiobooks from the curriculum.
Anyway, here are some of the {audio books we selected: The Book of Pirates, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Chaos King, Groosam Grange, Coraline, and Alice in Wonderland. And, there are plenty of titles for the adults as well.~There really is a very wide choice of titles now on audiobooks, for example, nursery rhymes, action and adventure, ghost stories, romance, animals etc…Enough to keep the entire family occupied}
Josh Ritter – “Why” (2012) – from the Bringing in The Darlings EP
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