{"id":221,"date":"2012-06-15T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowyouknowabout.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2015-09-06T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T11:53:58","slug":"good-parenting-a-helpful-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Good parenting – a helpful tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTired from a day’s work?\u00a0 Or a full afternoon surrounded by toddlers?\u00a0A long commute back home?\u00a0 All this and more can make evening with small children seem a tough prospect, however much you love them.\u00a0 I’m no advocate of maxing kids out on screen time – computers, tablets or TV – but if you deserve some me-time, and need it too, why not sit your children down in front of NowYouKnowAbout’s short, funny and educational\u00a0films about famous people.\u00a0 They’ll be entertained, they’ll be absorbed; you’ll get a break and – the icing on the cake – those kids will learn something new and useful.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine who’s a hard-working mother was delighted to find that, when her son, aged 8, went on a school trip around Westminster Abbey, he told the teacher and the rest of his class that the great discoverer of gravity, Isaac Newton, was buried there.\u00a0 He’d picked that up watching NowYouKnowAbout Isaac Newton – our ten-minute movie that teaches kids stuff and gives their parents a guilt-free moment to put their feet up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tired from a day’s work?\u00a0 Or a full afternoon surrounded by toddlers?\u00a0A long commute back home?\u00a0 All this and more can make evening with small children seem a tough prospect, however much you love them.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n