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So it's the summer holidays and the children need to be entertained. Looking back to when I was a child, I remember the board games ('Operation' was a particular favourite!) but in the digital age ch
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Have you any tips for entertaining children in the school holidays?
posted at 7/8/2012 1:04 PM BST
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So it's the summer holidays and the children need to be entertained. Looking back to when I was a child, I remember the board games ('Operation' was a particular favourite!) but in the digital age children's entertainment has brought a lot more choice. It might seem easier to let children entertain themselves on the computer or in front of the TV, especially when the weather has not been on our side. But you might prefer to get them out and about as much as possible. Have you got any tips for entertaining children during the summer holidays? |
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Re: Have you any tips for entertaining children in the school holidays?
posted at 9/8/2012 9:30 AM BST
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c_a_t, Looking back sixty years to my own childhood, an exercise always done through a distorting glass, my mother did not entertain us. We had bikes, and the roiads were relatively quiet. There were araes of rough ground, 'woods' to explore, build dens in, rig Tarzan ropes. I'm sorry that for so many, maybe you, those entertainments are not available. For my own children, twenty years ago, there was competition from TV and PC, but they were able to make their own games, except as you say when the wetaher was bad, and they were "Bored!" I'm sorry, and I do understand, if today, you cannot allow you children those liberties, If you have a garden, some large cardboard boxes and polythene floor sheet will make a temporary den, infinitely adjustable between submarine and spaceship, and sleep there at night, if possible outside. Of course the homeless sleep in cardboard on frosty nights, so the kids can think on't too! Gardens lend themselves to gardening, planting, growing. Pumpkins and sunflowers were our staples, gross, exciting plants, that grow quickly. Each child may scratch their name in a young gourd and the contest is on for biggest! Treasure hunts, if they are old enough to go out for themselves. Find an example of several objects that cannot be bought, or may be begged. Or send them out with a camera, to take pictures of certain things - digital film costs nothing now! Hope those ideas help! John |
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