About one in three parents has shouted, “Don’t make me stop this car!” into the back seat, or spilled a drink or food. Not surprisingly, the potential for encountering aggravating circumstances increases with the number of kids in the car, including:

Four teenage boys trying to determine who had the smelliest gas after eating chili
One child throwing up on the other two kids in the car
The discovery of head lice on a girl
Kids singing raunchy songs
Kids hitting, fighting, kicking and screaming all the way home

It’s no wonder that 90 percent of all respondents reported washing their cars at a professional car wash during the past year!

Additional fun facts:

In terms of ease of carpooling, most (75%) feel that it doesn’t matter whether the group in the car is all boys or all girls
While very few parents have thrown a coat over underwear to drive their kids, about a third have gone out in their pajamas, and one in four have driven in fuzzy slippers
Parents are most likely to use the radio or conversation to entertain kids while carpooling