I relate to this all so deeply. I was recently faced with a 5-hour car trip across Costa Rica (after an 8-hour plane ride) sans the iPads (dead batteries, no charging ports in the rental car) that were going to get us through. We started out with guessing games that devolved into "I'm thinking of an animal that farts like this..." The weirdness! The laughs! I enjoyed it so much that I purposely put the iPads in the trunk for the return trip, and we played it all again.
The middle school version of this battle is around phones. It was really bad last year, but it's gotten a bit better. Podcasts are a big part of the solution for us too.
I relate to this all so deeply. I was recently faced with a 5-hour car trip across Costa Rica (after an 8-hour plane ride) sans the iPads (dead batteries, no charging ports in the rental car) that were going to get us through. We started out with guessing games that devolved into "I'm thinking of an animal that farts like this..." The weirdness! The laughs! I enjoyed it so much that I purposely put the iPads in the trunk for the return trip, and we played it all again.
The middle school version of this battle is around phones. It was really bad last year, but it's gotten a bit better. Podcasts are a big part of the solution for us too.