Long traffic jams, bickering siblings, extreme boredom – backseat temper tantrums have knocked the wheels off many a family holiday.
Now a statistician, Dr James Hind, from Nottingham Trent University, has calculated the exact formula for predicting the chances, and timing, of children throwing a tantrum in the back of a car during a long journey.
We’re interested to hear what people are doing to deal with impatient young backseat passengers on longer trips, whether they swear by a game, sing songs, rely on ipads or have found other effective ways to entertain kids while on the road.
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