Monday, Apr 28, 2003 at 16:06
When we were littlies it took 2 days to go Syd - Melb. A two lane h'way (road), no such thing as
seat belts and we carried 3 gerry cans fuel as there weren't a lot of servos.
Certainly no such things as DVDs, tapes & Cds. But my u'beaut parents would stop at bridges and give me a penny if I could say the name of the river, or the first one to spot a rabbit or roo, or I spy, we would sing and we would look at picture books, we would stop to pat a cow. Sometimes Mum would read us a story. For lunch we would stop up a side lane and boil a billy for a cuppa and sandwich. We never got bored, but I bet we said "Are we there yet"
These days your good local library has music & story tapes and CDs plus heaps of kids books, they call it brain fodder, stimulating.
It doesn't matter if you get the books back late, pay the fine, it'll seem cheap in the long term, certaintly a lot cheaper than a DVD.
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