What the hell are goldfish crumbs anyway?

 

 

If anybody opened these inside my car, it would only end one way.

 

Yup, it has one!

The materials in the Pacifica are pretty good and clean pretty well with one exception,. the carpet. It has this awful, grabby velcro like carpet that doesnt feel low end, but it holds onto hair and lint from blankets and crumbs and they don't vacuum out unless you brush the carpet down with a stiff brush whole you're vacuuming. Very annoying.

Gotta make sure its in metallic pea!

Totally not my choice! I would not even consider another Pacifica if it was only my decision.

Haha, I felt the same way before I had young twins lol. They don't ride in the Lexus much, and normally don't eat in it when they do. But that particular day somehow she snuck a thing of goldfish out and the damage was done lol

 

I take it you don't have kids.

I don't either, but I understand the feelings of those who do.

 

He has kids but his kids are grown.

I'd much rather vacuum some crumbs than listen to "I'm HUUUNGRY" lol

 

how och handled kids in the car

 

Hahahaha, I buy duct tape in bulk

 

No, I actually lucked out, my daughter is grown up but when she was small she always behaved and never really made any mess inside the car or at home. Her and I are complete clean freaks.

My wife on the other hand, I have no idea how she does it, but I want to wash her car every time she drives it.

 

Yeah my kids take after my wife, not me LOL. I'm very neat and she's not.

Its interesting, I definitely see a difference in them vs me when I was a kid. I think kids today are much more accustomed to always having some kind of stimulus, when I was a kid I could sit 5 hours in a car no problem with no movie or anything like that, I can't imagine my kids doing that...

 

Wait, wut?

I ate Goldfish in the 1980s. How is there a person that doesn't know Goldfish?? Pirate's Booty--ok fine. But Goldfish??!!

 

Not to go too far OT, but my wife and I talk about this a lot. She's a first grade teacher, so she sees it a lot at school, and it becomes more of an issue every year. There is so much for them to take in and do all of the time that they are completely unprepared to sit and wait when that is what is required.

We have realized that we have to teach our kids how to be bored, and that being bored is okay. We put away all screens in our house for the summer to try to aid in this and ensure they are playing outside and creatively as much as possible.

We didn't have tablets or movies in our cars growing up. Heck, when I was 8 we drove from the Seattle area to Disneyland and I was allowed to bring one Hotwheel in the car to entertain myself. And I survived...

 

Another game (if you remember) we did as kids, on long trips, was to observe the license-plates on vehicles next to us, and keep track of the number from each state.

 

I try and vacuum my truck out every so often, as I get a lot of dirt in it when I'm off-roading. Even just visiting my family involves parking in dirt which means getting dirt on your carpet from your shoes. NBD, just vacuum once in a while.

 

Absolutely, its a major problem. We're trying to do the same thing, but especially spending so much time together here in the house, its hard. All of this ADHD going around and the issue really is that our kids aren't able to be bored or to sit quietly, they need constant stimulus.