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Today’s programme is dedicated to the challenges and joys of the long summer weeks out of school. Is boredom good? Will children fall behind on their learning? How can you be sure your teenagers are safe while you’re at work? Jane also hears about the impact of holiday food poverty on children with parents on low incomes. Plus minimalist camping tips to get children off their screens and outside.
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Part two: Their parents both work in better paid jobs and yet never offer to contribute. A recent trip to the cinema cost nearly forty pounds. I think that this may be a basis for a programme.
It was so children could help with harvest. In my childhood autumn half-term was called Potato Picking Week.
Part one: Can I just put a plea in here? My friend is 62 and works six days per week as a waitress on minimum wage. She loves her grandchildren and often has them during the day and then works in the evening. When she takes them out she funds it herself.
If you are middle class and can afford it its fabulous. For anyone with a minimum wage job and no family support it's a nightmare.
Yes, children need them! It’s when they actually have a life, or should be!
My daughter has no problem playing on her own, but she needs company of other children regularly. Last summer I couldn't get any play dates at all. This summer my parents helped paying for having her at the holiday club, she loved it and wished she could have gone more.
Moors Valley Country Park near Ringwood. £12 car park for a day of running free in the woods and playing. Wonderful.
gogogoldust No parks in inner cities ..nonsense, such an ill informed remark
No mention of how everyone is going to fit there holidays into a shortened period. hotels, tours etc. We run small pet boarding and are inundated in August with no spare capacity. We couldn't deal with demand created by a shorter holiday.
No mention of how everyone is going to fit there holidays into a shortened period. hotels, tours etc. We run small pet boarding and are inundated in August with no spare capacity. We couldn't deal with demand created by a shorter holiday.
gogogoldust Please stop the patronising single parent comments. I was a single parent after my partner died and living away from my family too. We went camping in the new forest every year. The very best holidays. Single parent and working full time doesn’t need to disadvantage.
Again school holidays and children. Not all women have children or wish to. Insensitive and inconsiderate. Suggest BBCRadio4 have a BBCParentsHour if if it is to keep BBCWomansHour inclusive and non-discriminatory. Include LGBTQIA maybe? Try to be more creative and topical?
And while on the subject if junk food and poverty. The food requested and asked for by fiod banks. Zero nutritional value. Horrific. Food co-operatives can cut the cost of fresh fruit and vegetables to literally pennies. Why is this not a focus?
Long history of poverty facing UK schools. Shameful that conditions in seaside town primary in 50s (supplementary feeding), London primary in 70s, are now back. Parents IN WORK unable to feed kids adequately shames us all. What is big spender BorisJohnson going to do about it?
My primary age kids reliably grow 5cm every year, with at least 2cm of that growth during the 6 week summer holiday, thanks to being able to sleep late in the mornings and snack when they're hungry. I do wish the long holiday was earlier in the year though. 1/
As a primary teacher, I am torn between supporting vulnerable children but also providing a break for them. I feel there is an increasing view of schools as an all-encompassing support system but without the training and funding this can't be done. What about holiday clubs?
Hugely interesting discussion about the summer holidays. My theatre & community arts company has run a low cost creative summer holiday club with food included for 3 weeks to meet needs of families in South Bristol, & have built in provision for children with additional needs.
Why do people have children? If you have them and then palm them off onto nursery then school and then god forbid that you might actually have to have them to yourself in a school holiday then I don't think you deserve them.Children should be parented and loved and cared for.
‘Both parents working, don’t know where they are and no food’ really? This is not the norm, not by a long way. It costs very little to feed kids nutritionally. Feeding junk food is the issue. Meanwhile in food tech they still teach kids how to make junk food!
Brilliant free place to take children is the Natural History Society Bournemouth. Wonderful natural history exhibits from Victorian times, fossils and an Egyptian Mummy! Manned by academic volunteers who are happy to share their interests. Only open Tuesdays and some Saturdays
A ‘pause in leaning’? C’mon WH of course it isn’t. Learning different, just as important stuff.
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