Car Sickness and kids-what you must have with you

Here is a super important tip I will pass along to any of you that are going to travel a long distance with kids. Always take two trash bags and a roll of paper towels with you. Keep them within arms reach of yourself so you can grab them quickly. I keep them right under the drivers seat. I recently took a ski trip with a bunch of 11 year old kids and one of them got sick... and I mean sick. I was in the left lane of a 4 lane busy highway that was merging into another one. Needless to say it was going to be a few minutes before I could safely pull over. I grabbed the bag for him to use until I could get safely off of the road. When we pulled over I could throw away the bag, clean him up with the paper towels and I still had another bag left in case he needed it again. We still had 2 hours left to drive. This travel tip totally came in handy again when I was driving my kids into New York City over the holidays. The traffic was as heavy as it could be and the exhaust backing up made one of my sons queasy. Sure enough, the bag came out. We were on a bridge and there was no way for me to pull over. If I wasn't prepared it would have been a mess. My son handled it all so well and I'm sure it's because I was calm and cool because we were ready...just in case.
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