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.\u00a0 Nowadays it means…..yikes!…children at home, wild and unfettered for 2 months.\u00a0 Right, I know – at the start you think ‘oh let them lounge, game, chill,\u00a0 slouch around in the clothes they slept in – in short, r-e-l-a-x’.\u00a0 But that wears off pretty soon, I’ve found.\u00a0 And then you start fantastising about sending teenage boys to military academy.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Then they can tell YOU all about Galileo, or why Darwin was rubbish at school.\u00a0 We’ve got colouring pages too for doing at the kitchen table afterwards.\u00a0 As educational parenting tools go, our films are just the ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8392,"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