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This might be the year you surprise your family with an early holiday gift of a portable DVD player for your car. If you're packing everybody up for a road trip this season it makes sense to bring along some entertainment that everyone can take pleasure in doesn't it? Banish the tedium of the drive and the ever present questions of "are we there yet? and "how much longer?" and turn the travel time into family time.
Make a Family Tradition. Pick a family favorite or holiday-themed DVD that you watch on your way to the family occasion. If the only time you watch it is on the trip, then it becomes an event|watch on your way to the holiday feast. If the only time you watch it is on the trip, then it is an event . Older kids may groan "not again", but are going to be a captive audience to sit through "Miracle on 34th Street" and may well even look back fondly on the tradition.
Have a Slideshow. Family slide shows used to be a night with popcorn and fussing with the slide projector and sideways slides. Now with digital pictures, showing your pictures is a lot simpler, so easy that we take it for granted sometimes. For your next road trip to go to family and friends why not put together a DVD slide show of the year's events or more. It'll make a fantastic gift for your hosts and your family gets to enjoy it on the trip. Get your teen involved in making the slideshow and let them show off their abilities.
Stage a Sing Along. Put in a musical DVD, anything from "The Little Mermaid" to "The Sound of Music". Something the kids knows the music to. You can only hear yourselves, so let loose and sing along. Make up your own lyrics. It's silly and fun and kids will likely be laughing too hard to pick on each other.
Movie Night. This is even a lot more fun if you are traveling at night. Surprise everybody by getting a blockbuster newest release that everyone's been waiting to see. Snuggle up with blankets and pass a tub of popcorn that you fixed ahead of time. An action flick where you'll be able to cheer the good guy and boo the villain are especially fun.
Snooze Time. Make certain everyone gets their naps, put in the most boring educational DVD you can locate and give the driver some quiet time!
Sure a portable DVD player for your car can play movies, but there's so significantly much more you can do with those movies to turn a family road trip into true family time. Make the travel time an event in itself and develop your own family travel traditions.
