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The games are simple to learn, also indexed according to age group - which helped find an appropriate game quickly. I pulled this book out when things were degrading during our 3000+ mile road trip this summer. I chose a game, everyone played and had fun. When spending so much time in the car, you need many different "tools" to make it through. This is a great one.
This was a great book, we have used it on 2 long trips so far and love it. There are tongue twisters, jokes, and lots of activities for everyone to participate in. A great buy.
How much real life are they missing. So, I was thrilled when I came upon Carole Terwilliger Meyers' handy little book MILES OF SMILES. Don't our children also need a vacation from TV & movies. I've seen those ads for minivans with little monitors for passengers in the back seats to watch movies. It has a whole slew of new games to play, which can be adapted to any age passengers. To retain his sanity, he invented all sorts of brain teasing games.
My mother was the driver, with my father navigating.
How dull will our children's brains become, being force-fed with endless artificial stories."Are we there yet." is a question rarely asked when you bring MILES OF SMILES along on your journeys.
I have, however, played many of these games with my kids on busses, trains, even 'planes.
Frankly, the idea of appals me.
It's perfect for a glove compartment or a seat pocket.
It is a good book for travellers, chock-a-block with things to do with eyes & brains.
Thinking on the move, exercising the brain cells, learning to wrap the tongue around strange words, thinking inside the head, rather than passively, staring into space as someone else's ideas reel into the mind.In my childhood, the only way we went on vacations was by family car.
MILES OF SMILES is a book that will let you think, use your brain, get to know your family.
In the Introduction, Carole Terwilliger Meyers even gives parents a clue as to how to entice teenagers into the games.Pick up a couple of copies of MILES OF SMILES - just in case you lose the first.
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