Column | Kid me not
A columnist reflects on the challenges of keeping children entertained during the long summer school holidays. The author contrasts modern parenting struggles with their own childhood experiences of being kept busy by grandparents.
Why it matters
It highlights the universal parenting challenge of balancing work and childcare during school breaks while reflecting on changing generational dynamics.
Dear readers, the schools are now closed here in London. Which is very convenient. Because now I have to deal with unbearable heat seeping into every pore of my being, but also with unbearable children demanding non-stop entertainment until the schools reopen.
Look readers, make no mistake. I love my children very much. They are wonderful. They are well behaved, they both like reading books, they will eat a wide variety of cuisines, and if I ever tell them to switch off the TV, they will do so immediately, without hesitation, after just 20-35 requests.
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But, and I am open to your support here, how do you keep children entertained for two months until the schools reopen? Perhaps I am wearing rose-tinted glasses here, but back in my childhood, this was not at all a problem.
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