Modern kids, like Anniki Sommerville's 10 and five-year-old, expect to be entertained in the summer holidays. So what happens when you leave them to their own devices?
Modern kids, like Anniki Sommerville's 10 and five-year-old, expect to be entertained in the summer holidays. So what happens when you leave them to their own devices?It’s the summer holidays and for thousands of parents up and down the land, this means hearing “WHAT ARE WE DOING TODAY?” screamed in their ears at breakfast.Modern kids expect the world. Day trips. Entertainment. Activities.. I often stayed with my Granny in Coventry.
I was forced to go into Mum-tertainer mode for the rest of the afternoon and we ended up driving to a retail outlet to get some “treats” for them doing two minutes of very light gardening work.I come downstairs. They ask me what we’re doing today. I tell them I have nothing planned and turn my laptop on. There is a lot of complaining, and I do some deep breathing outside.
This “play” continues for another ten minutes but then a fight kicks off, and I have to take everyone to Tesco “to buy a watermelon”, .My children cry when I tell them that “only boring people get bored”, for the hundredth time. Today I opt for a “TV day”’, which means the older one watches skincare tutorials on YouTube. The younger one watchesThe trick seems to be to watch content with them now and then so we can chat a bit about it. That way it feels more like a collective activity even if I am sometimes replying to work emails now and then. Also, I love Annie.
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