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Jarlath Regan: What not to say to your other half when the kids are on holiday
There’s only one thing worse than facing the two-month kids’ Glastonbury parents are expected to conjure from thin air every summer, and that’s trying to do it alone with an oblivious spouse
When this generation of children get their summer holidays, the expectation of wall-to-wall entertainment, trips and camps boggles my mind. It also terrifies nearly every parent I know. They discuss it in coffee shops with hushed voices. This two-month kids’ Glastonbury that mothers and fathers are expected to create from thin air is the source of so much trepidation, my wife and I receive a barrage of emails about it to our parenting podcast at ...
