Keeping children quiet in the car

This morning I was congratulating myself on a peaceful journey back from Cornwall. For me and my family it was a rare triumph. We arrived not only well before midnight, despite the vagaries of my directions through south London; even better, we were still speaking to one another without growling.

I know where to bestow the credit for this unusual harmony, and I am sorry to say that it is all due to the wonders of computer technology. The children watched Harry Potter and The OC all the way. Silence reigned. I worked my way through crosswords and my husband listened to some unspeakable music. For a few brief minutes we looked up the age of Stonehenge – built some time between 3,100 and 2,200BC – on an iPhone as we crawled past on the A303. Read the full article written by Cassandra for the Telegraph.co.uk