How to Survive an Airport Trip With Your Kids

As usual common sense advice prevails. I had higher hopes for this article - "give every kid a gameboy"? - please, how about a book.

If you’re like most parents, the one part of winter vacation you dread the most is keeping your kids occupied during a two-, three- or five-hour plane trip. In the larger scheme of things, though, the time spent in the air is the easy part; what you should really be concerned about is herding your kids into and through your local airport, and through and out of the airport on the other end. Here’s how to go about it.

I think the real problem is keeping kids occupied while you are flying but then most of our flights with children are at least 12 hours.

How to Survive an Airport Trip With Your Kids - eHow.com