Originally Posted by
rockmom
Crying, screaming, whimpering. It both grates on the nerves and is a distraction to the driver. They were never in cars much, but a single 8 hour drive with my dad when the eldest was a year old taught us that they can actually cry that long with only a couple 20 minute naps. They youngest was no better and could shriek louder.
My mother has informed me that I had a similar response to car travel when little. We lived in the country and she restricted driving into town for errands to once a week because of it.
Sounds like a carfree gene!
Sometimes cars do calm kids down. Years ago, when I had a car, a friend had a baby who sometimes wouldn't sleep at all unless he could ride around in the car. Since my friend was carfree, he sometimes called me in the middle of the night to come drive the baby around until he fell asleep. Usually the baby's dad was so exhausted that he also fell asleep!