We withheld Mr W's favorite toys and movies for a week before our last long flight. It worked great.
The sight of a 16 mo old boy with giant adult noise-cancelling headphones on and totally focused on a movie on a laptop was pure bliss. We covered 4 hours with this one.
We introduced him to the headphones a weeks before with the IPOD.
We have got those looks too, everybody was asking what is she listening LOL ? DD then 17mo was sitting in her carseat holding DVD player, headphones on her head. For us DVD always works well as she does not normally get to watch it. We also introduced the headphones before the trip. We can easily make 10h flight with her eating, sleeping and watching DVD the whole time.
