Christina, I love that your 7-year-old is an aspiring scientist already! I think Abby and your little one would get along very well. :-) Enjoy it on your next road trip!

Jacquie, oh I’m so happy to hear you used it on your road trip! We actually went to Chicago on this road trip too. :-)

I hope you had a great family trip and that the experiment provided at least a little quiet time!

Skye, you are too sweet! Thank you for pinning this little road trip experiment. :-) I see you’re from Austin too! So fun to connect with another local mama. I just followed you on Twitter and Instagram. Off to check out your site!

Aw…*blush*

You know what’s cooler? Getting the Brennarella stamp of approval. :-D

So. Effin. Cool.

And so effin cool that you’ve actually become a Writer with a Blog that people Read. I remember when we dreamed of that. Rock on.

White!

After the experiment, I did a quick Google search to find out what the actual most popular car color is…and it’s white. :-) So then we had a cool conversation about what if it wasn’t actually white, what would that mean, etc. It led to talking about sample sizes and biased experiments, and more. Fun stuff for our geeky little family. :-)

Oh, mama. I feel for you! A few things that come to mind…

1. Through trial and error, we found a handful of songs that calmed Bailey down. Those are listed here: https://happyyouhappyfamily.com/2013/10/how-to-calm-crying-baby/

We would play those on repeat, and it would help her calm down for sleep and stay asleep MUCH longer than without the songs on.

2. Another thing we found that would help is me being in the backseat with her, basically hugging her when she was freaking out. So if she were crying and we knew she was sleepy, I would get in the back and hug her, and we would play the songs until she fell asleep. It sucked being squished in the back seat between two car seats, but I think we saved everyone’s sanity by decreasing the screaming as much as possible!

3. I’ve heard it helps some babies to have white noise playing in the car. You can get a white noise app to do this. The one we use is listed here (#3): https://happyyouhappyfamily.com/2013/07/8-newborn-must-haves/

4. We also noticed at night-time she would freak out even more. So we got a carseat mirror with a light and music feature. (We stopped at a Babies R Us halfway between Michigan and Austin at about 7:30 pm to pick that up, we were desperate!)

5. On another long trip, we stopped at Babies R Us to pick up a stack of board books. We read those to her in a happy voice – one after the other – and that helped too.

I hope I’ve given you some ideas to go on…good luck on your trip!

So glad to hear you like the game! Hopefully your kids will enjoy it for your next road trip. :-)