Colm O'Regan: My secret to a happy road trip with the kids

I’m not calling for the replacement of all roads with twisty paths and automated toll-booths with imp-guarded stiles but listening to simple tales of an imaginary time before notifications and alerts is good for the blood pressure when some gobshite is up your hole on the road

Colm O'Regan has some suggestions for keeping kids entertained during a road trip Picture: iStock

Today it’s time to say thanks to Rebecca Sheir and Kim Normanton. Two women on either side of the Atlantic who our children know by name.

Children’s story podcasts. The latest and most welcome stage of in-car entertainment for children on long journeys. I can’t remember what I did in the car as a 5 or 7-year-old. Cork to Dublin used to be a voyage where you were waylaid by bandits aka traffic, silage and double parking in the intervening towns. We passed the time fighting with siblings and looking out the back window trying to convince the car behind that they had a puncture.