The recent credit crunch has also seen the Euro soar to record heights
against the Pound so holidays to Europe will be more expensive this
year. For a family of 4 travelling to Spain for a fortnight, it has
been reported that the cost of the holiday will be over £700 more than
last year as a result of the different exchange rate.
This article points out some of the hazards of letting your child watch too many DVDs in the car and provides several strategies for minimizing DVD usage.
A long car trip with kids can be miserable so like many people, I bring along the item that allows us to arrive at our destination with our sanity intact. This, of course, is the miraculous portable DVD player. How did our parents do without such a device when we were kids? Quite well. In the era before car seats, we played on the huge back bench of our full size Chrysler New Yorker. We had ALL of our toys with us for hours of uninterrupted play. Most of the time the question “Are we there yet?” just didn’t matter.