{"id":533,"date":"2012-10-19T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/pha\/?p=270"},"modified":"2012-10-19T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:45:16","slug":"help-with-homework-keeping-kids-busy-in-the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/pha\/2012\/10\/19\/help-with-homework-keeping-kids-busy-in-the-car\/","title":{"rendered":"HELP WITH HOMEWORK; KEEPING KIDS BUSY IN THE CAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a title=\"Permanent Link to Child Focus\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/2012\/10\/18\/child-focus\/\">Child Focus<\/a><\/h3>\n<div><strong>Homework<\/strong> \u2013 Now that the school year is well  under way, your host children may have more homework than before.\u00a0 Tips  to help everyone get homework done can be found here <a href=\"http:\/\/aupairinamerica.com\/resources\/activities\/homework_support.asp\">http:\/\/aupairinamerica.com\/resources\/activities\/homework_support.asp<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Driving \u2013 <\/strong>Keeping children happy in the car can be  challenging. One helpful approach is to engage them in car games in the  safety of their car seat or seat belt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I Spy<\/strong>:\u00a0 Very young children can play\u201d&#8221; I Spy with my  little eye\u201d&#8221; and they say the color of the thing they are looking at  and everyone else in the car needs to guess what it is.\u00a0 For example,  \u201c\u201dI spy my with my little eye something red\u201d&#8221; and people guess that the  child is looking at a red car or red mailbox.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Alphabet Game- ages 3 and up<\/strong> \u2013 Children who can identify letters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">and<\/span> can easily see out the window of the car can play this game. One child  starts with A and has to find a word on a sign visible from the car with  the letter A. The next child has to identify the B, and so on.\u00a0 Older  children can play the <strong>Geography Game<\/strong>.\u00a0 One person  starts by saying aloud a country, city or state and the next person must  take the last letter to begin his country, city or state.\u00a0 For example:  1st person says New York and the next person can say Kansas and the  next person can say Seattle.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Permanent Link to Child Focus\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/2012\/10\/18\/child-focus\/\">Child Focus<\/a> Homework \u2013 Now that the school year is well under way, your host children may have more homework than before.\u00a0 Tips to help everyone get homework done can be found here <a href=\"http:\/\/aupairinamerica.com\/resources\/activities\/homework_support.asp\">http:\/\/aupairinamerica.com\/resources\/activities\/homework_support.asp<\/a> Driving \u2013 Keeping children happy in the car can be challenging. One helpful  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/pha\/2012\/10\/19\/help-with-homework-keeping-kids-busy-in-the-car\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HELP WITH HOMEWORK; KEEPING KIDS BUSY IN THE CAR - Au Pairs On The Main Line<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HELP WITH HOMEWORK; KEEPING KIDS BUSY IN THE CAR - Au Pairs On The Main Line\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Child Focus Homework \u2013 Now that the school year is well under way, your host children may have more homework than before.\u00a0 Tips to help everyone get homework done can be found here http:\/\/aupairinamerica.com\/resources\/activities\/homework_support.asp Driving \u2013 Keeping children happy in the car can be challenging. 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