Keep Kids Busy on Your Next Road Trip With 'Backpack Time'
by Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Me from Lifehacker on (#4VFB2)

I think it's fair to say that kids have a lot more options these days to stay entertained in the car on a road trip. What did we have? Books. Pen and paper. A Walkman, if we were lucky. And eventually, a boredom that ran deep enough to make the alphabet license plate game sound like a good idea.