Lots of stops

magnetic games, a magic slate, a simplified laminated map, little portions of favourite snacks music to encourage a nap!

Play games, duck everytime you go under a bridge,how many car colours from a rainbow you can see, how many clocks can you see on your way

Make sure you have some activities/toys/games/dvd to keep your children occupied during the journey.

valium

Always have cereal bars and bottles of water in the car as traffic jams can lead to late meal times and being prepared helps prevent stress!

Keep them interested in the journey by playing i spy,counting types/colours of cars.The journey can be both fun and a learning experience.

Take some of their favourite toys, he likes his toy steering wheel so he pretends he is driving .

Make sure they are safely strapped in, ad given plenty of things to stop them geting bored and fighting as its important you concentrate too

keep them occupied with eye spy and sing alongs

make sure they have their seatbelts on.

Planning ahead, patience, fun and laughter

Give them drawing equipment and an ipod.

keep them occupied by playing games, alphabet game, name a food beginning with A, name a food beginning with B. Also name countries, animals

playing car games: 20 questions, or seeing who can spot the number plate with number closest to 1 or 1000 [only works with old style plates]

Travel bingo - give each child a grid of say 12 things that can be seen from the car and the first one to cross them all off, is the winner.