I know that a lot of us will be taking some road trips this summer. It is the season for long car drives. In a previous post I wrote about how we pass the time on our road trips.
This is what I wrote:
“In the car we listened to a lot of audio books or books on tape. (Just for fun, if you are a wordie: My son and I were looking up the definition of oxymoron and ‘books on tape’ was used as an example.)
My husband and I have found that audio books for kids hold our interest as well. They are light, fun, and the good stories are actually good. And if you doze off, when you wake up, you can usually pick up on the storyline without too much trouble.”
Here are some of the books on tape we have enjoyed:
The Great Brain (Great Brain, Book 1)
Ramona the Pest (Ramona Quimby (Pb))
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Frindle
No Talking
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Enhanced Edition)
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge)
We have taken a couple more road trips since then. Here are some more books that we enjoyed:
Little House On The Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Henry Huggins, by Beverly Cleary
The Pepins and Their Problems, by Polly Horvath
Anything about Junie B. Jones, by Barbara Parks
We tried to listen to some classics but they were a no go:
Last time I also got LingualFun, the French edition because the blurb on the package promised that we would learn French in no time. I was hoping my family would be fluent in French by the time we arrived in New York so that I could impress my cosmopolitan cousins with my kids jo’ie de vi’vre and sophistication. This time I got Lingua Fun in Spanish, although my husband insists that we need to teach our kids Chinese. At any rate, it was still not happening. My kids are fine with English and the Hebrew that they know. They do not want to expand their horizons and they obviously don’t care about their Mother’s bragging rights. Wouldn’t it be nice if I can tell all my friends that my kids are trilingual? See, even though I am a parent educator, I am not immune to trophy parenting.
Maybe on our next road trip…It is always important to keep hoping…