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Toddlers on road trips

We're heading to DC for my SIL's baby shower this weekend and though he has flown a lot, we've never taken Logan on a road trip. So far we've borrowed my sister's portable DVD player, which I'm hoping will help!

Does anyone have good traveling tips for a 13 month old? We're not planning to leave Pittsburgh until he wakes up on his own and I'd hate to have him sleep the whole way and throw off his schedule.

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Re: Toddlers on road trips

  • The DVD player will be helpful..... and DC is probably a good distance for a first long trip in car. :) Maybe a few interactive toys also can help pass the time. Might even be helpful if you sit in the back with him? Maybe some cds to sing along to if

  • Toys(maybe something new he hasn't played with before) and snacks are your friends!  Noah always liked to look at books, so I'd just take tons of those and he would "read".
  • The dvd will be a big help and I get some new books and snacks..
     
  • Ditto the others - some snacks, drinks, small toys, the DVD player will be helpful.  Our longest trips have been to Rehoboth, where my brother or sister has usually driven down with us, so someone has usually been in the back seat with them, which

  • That?s funny?we just took Spencer to the DC area last weekend. This was the longest she?s spent in the car. I think we lucked

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  • We tend to travel close to her bed time going to OH so that she will drift off. We put her in her jammies before we hit the road and she usually falls asleep at some point. For the awake time, I try to have a couple of new toys she's never seen (I just

  • EJ's first road trip was across the state to the NJ.  We left at about morning nap time, and so that was nice because she slept. Then we had a lunch break at a rest stop where there was room for her to run around a bit.  The second half of th

  • We live about 5.5 hours from Pittsburgh where my family is so we have been doing road trips since dd was a baby. When she was an infant we had better luck traveling when it was bedtime but didn't need to as much when dd was a little older. Dd is fine w

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  • I think the DVD player and a few snacks and toys will get you through. I also sat in the back on trips (before we had two kids and no room back there for a third person).
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