Photo from AmazonFamily road trips await this summer, but how are you going to keep your toddler from talking your ear off?
Thank you Scholastic.
This week the publisher has rolled out the first of its "Sing Along Travel Kits," part of its Storybook Treasures series.
The Wheels on the Bus Sing-Along Travel Kit ($18.99) sports two DVDs loaded with children's stories (the animation is sort of herky jerky, but the kids probably won't notice), plus a CD of kids' songs, crayons, and an activity booklet.
Basically, it's set up so when they get bored with one activity, there's another waiting right there in the same box -- and you get 132 minutes of uninterrupted bliss (save for "Mom, can you change the DVD/CD?").
My daughter loved being introduced to some new songs -- "Wheels" is on there, but so is a host of oldies you don't hear often like "Frog Went a-Courtin'" and "Dem Bones."
Scholastic is advertising this for the 3 to 9 set, and I will say I'd limit it to the toddlers -- maybe the kindergartners or first graders at the oldest -- but overall it was a hit in our car.
Does your family do sing-alongs on road trips?
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Love it. The only thing lately that chills my son out is me singing. Ideally this would sub for my tired, non-professional voice.
:) Hey, it's worth a shot, right? Of course I am partial to my DS singing his own creations, like he did on the way home from the grocery store the other day ( 'I loooovvvee you! I kiiiiiiiiissssess you! Laaa laaa looo ') so I probably wouldn't play it straight threw.
my girls love to sing in the car, no matter if we are just going to the store and back.
Aren't you the one who wrote about your recent road trip and said you would do it again? Now your thanking Scholastic for a sing along tape so you don't have to hear her talk? Well I guess anyone will do something for a little money, even write articles and lie about their opinion on the topic. I feel that if your going to write articles, believe in what you write.
Oh Jack, we ALL love to hear our children talk, and we love it even more when they do so in moderation.
This looks like a good product to me and we do have a road trip planned so thanks!
Jack -- I also wrote that I had a TON Of activities for her to do, and this happened to be one of them.
We spent 2,000 miles on the road, and no, I didn't want to hear her asking "are we there yet" every second of them.
So, no lying -- in fact I note in here that I don't think the product will go beyond the pre-school/young elementary school age despite Scholastic's claims.
that's nice, specially with a non-stop talker in the back seat. we normally just put music and go along with it.
I'd buy it, even if it only gave me an hour of peace!
Before every summer road trip we put together cd's of music that both the adults and the kids can deal with enjoy.
No, we don't, but it's fun for some.