A useful tool for keeping children from asking, “Are we there yet?” is to give them each a roll of quarters. They are not allowed to spend these quarters, and must surrender one quarter every time they ask the dreaded question, “Are we there yet?” When the trip is completed, then they get to keep whatever quarters they haven’t spent by asking the question.
The doctor was given this advice by a friend before a road trip from Minnesota to New Hampshire, and the technique worked great; Daniel didn’t ask more than a handful of times before he decided having the quarters was better than asking the question. Sometimes greed works…
Now if we can just get him over the night we stayed at the roach motel in Indiana…