Travellers First Aid Kit For Families

Parenting is the most important job we’ll ever do and yet children come without a manual – or a money-back option! This parent guide is an extract from Dr John Irvines’ book "Who’d be a parent? The manual that should have come with the kids!" Dr John Irvine is one of Australia’s most heard and read child psychologists.

To print or download this guide, click here.

Car

• Set of cassette tapes of car games and activities.
• Special tapes of favourite songs, heard only in the car.
• Pad with plastic lift-up flap (the children draw, lift flap to erase)
• Age-appropriate jokes, comic or picture books (for kids who don’t get carsick)
• Pocket games, both manual and electronic.
• String for cats’ cradle.
• Knitting Nancy-French knitting spool.
• Resurrect Rubik cube – maybe paste on appropriate pictures to make block jigsaw.
• In the glove box: a small container or sandwich bag of tasty finger food or dried fruit, which could be handed out for not asking how far to go till we hit the next town or whatever.
• Bi-carb soda to take the smell out of carsick spots
• Sticker fun book
• Road Safety activity books, etc – supplied by Macquarie University.
• Plastic cups and fresh water bottles for hot days to stop dehydration.
• A stable table.
• Colouring-in books and pencils or colour-by-number style.
• Talking books (from libraries); books that you read along with tapes.
• Walkmans with headphones!

Handbag

• A few bandaids (preferably those with animal and colourful strips), useful to give kids to try to open them to fill in time such as when they’re in a supermarket trolley.
• An old wallet (maybe with play money).
• A small inexpensive working calculator.
• Some little handheld computer game.
• Old set of keys.
• A spare pack of baby wipes or moist towelettes.
• Maybe a small safe container with dried fruit

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