Gird yourself…..
Sumer is icumen in (as the traditional English song circa 1240 put it) and for parents, that no longer means sweating in the fields and the hassle of the harvest as it did back then. Nowadays it means…..yikes!…children at home, wild and unfettered for 2 months. Right, I know – at the start you think ‘oh let them lounge, game, chill, slouch around in the clothes they slept in – in short, r-e-l-a-x’. But that wears off pretty soon, I’ve found. And then you start fantastising about sending teenage boys to military academy. Well, for any parents of children under 10, for whom keeping them out of harm and trouble is a full-time workout, give yourself a guilt-free break and give them a nugget of rich general knowledge but planting them on the sofa for a quick ten-minute watch of our short films about famous people. Then they can tell YOU all about Galileo, or why Darwin was rubbish at school. We’ve got colouring pages too for doing at the kitchen table afterwards. As educational parenting tools go, our films are just the ticket.
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