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Three NECESSITIES to Help Children Survive a Road Trip

Traveling by car with children can be a lot of fun or a lot of frustration. Proper planning can make all the difference. Here are “THREE MUST HAVES” to make your travel time a success and a learning experience for your children.

Necessity # 1: Pull out the COLORING BOOKS and a NEW box of crayons! Young children need visuals when they travel. As you drive, have your kids color the illustrations in their new coloring books. The act of coloring is soothing and relaxing to children. It calms their nerves, excitement, and energy levels; thus, preparing them for the long road ahead. This first necessity helps them to adjust the time and distance.  It’s also great to squash the “how much longer” questions.

I saw this building first here on flickr, on dave morris’ photostream and later on iqbal aalam’s and found it very beautiful. seeing it in oxford, it did not disappoint.

that an engineering company could produce modern architecture of this order took me by surprise. clearly philip dowson, who was the architect in charge, was in a very strong position within the company to achieve something as powerful as this. he was awarded the royal gold medal in 1981 – the street front of the wolfson alone justifies it – and the RIBA has a brief text about it on their site: his approach was always a rational, scientific one, it says, which makes a lot of sense given the background of arup, except that the wolfson building is a work of art and works of art don’t arrive by accident or by science even if they can create an image of a rational approach.