Does anyone still get in the car and drive? Whether your drive has a purpose or it is just an old fashioned Sunday drive. Kids, at least my kid doesn't like going for any drive that is not going to get food or going home from getting food. He gets worried when he gets in the car with mom and dad. When both mom and dad are in the car, there is a chance that the family is going somewhere as a family and that means, a long drive.
All the smart money says take toys and games for him to play with. Bring something to distract him with for the ride. I don't think about doing this until I am already out driving. I want my son to learn how to go along for the ride, but of course he hasn't so far. We took him for a long drive recently and you would have thought that someone was killing him. The complaining, the deal making and then finally he started screaming at us to turn this car around. He let out all his thoughts, "you two are fools, turn this car around, I am not going." Normally this is something that gets him in big trouble, but we were out in the middle of nowhere, well somewhere, but nowhere that I was familiar with, so what to do. Commit child abuse, stop the car, go straight home, no. I tried ignoring him, but that made it worse. I finally turned around in my seat and probably said the dumbest and most chancy thing of all, "you can get out right here if you want." He did not want to get out and he shut up on the spot.
I don't recommend asking your kid to make the choice to get out of the car when you are out on the road. I was so frustrated, my lack of planning and fore site almost did me in on that drive. Sometimes I do so things that I think, what the heck was that? I wouldn't even do that, but wait, I did do that, that was me. Was that an out of body experience? Was that my dream that this was happening, a nightmare, no that was a page from my life. Let me out, let me out of this car.
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