For many years I traveled with my children.  I would drive ten to twelve hours across several states fore to five times a year.  I would go home to visit my family.  I never had an issue with my children when it come to traveling.  No I never has a television my car.  My kids were not hooked up to cd players.  I would take some color books, snacks and drinks.  The ones that were able to read in the car would bring books.  We had various activities we would do as we road along.  We would talk about things they felt were issues.  We had a wide verity of road games we would play from bingo to I see something you don’t see.  We would sing.  When we hit the tricky mountain passes they new it was time for a nap.  When we went through dangerous mountain areas the kid new that they were required to remain quiet.  So the usually went to sleep.  a ten hour trip was usually good for two naps for my kids.  In the summer we would stop and picnic for meals.  In the winter we would stop at a restaurant.  We had very few disagreements, and very few are we there yets.  But allot of I gotta pees.  I learned more about my kids in the car than I think any other place.  I wish more people would throw the televisions out of there cars and talk to their kids, they would be amazed at what they would learn.