‘TV-Turn-Off-Challenge’ - Are Your Kids Up To It?
We’ve just had a Bank Holiday. Ok, we’ve had half a Bank Holiday, or ‘A Game Of Two Halves’, as they say on Grandstand. Baking hot one day (that was this year’s summer, by the way), miserable the next. It’s brilliant living in the UK, isn’t it?
For some of you, however, the holiday continues. And by some of you, we mean those of you who have been lucky (or is that un-lucky?) enough to have to keep control of your household’s younger element. The children are off school for half-term and you know what happens when children get bored? They invite all their friends around to have massive raucous parties and trash your house. Well… maybe that’s more the behaviour of a rock star, but when children get bored – and this is far worse than having to replace a tatty vase from Bognor – they resort to the idiot box in the corner of the room.
So how are you going to drive a wedge between your young’uns and their surrogate parent? Easy, you give them some far better options. Options that we’d rather be indulging in were we not writing this blog for you. That’s right, we are so good to you.
So where’s hot and hip? Where isn’t going to spark off rolling eyeballs? What’s going to fire the imagination? What about this little lot:
Take them to the leisure centre. Along with the usual smorgasbord of sports, there may also be swimming pools with slides, wave machines and all sorts of mad H20-related goodness. How about The Oasis in Swindon, which you can read about here…
From where we’re standing, it’s all High School Musical Part 5965 around these parts, so why not take them to the cinema for some big screen thrills? There’s plenty in every town and city around the UK and this one in Liverpool seems to be a particular favourite.
And what about a bit of bowling? As long as the bowling ball doesn’t stray into someone else’s lane, it will be a heck of a laugh. Well, the children will be doing all the laughing as you struggle to break double figures. Have a look at one of Eastbourne’s finest here.
So what have we missed? Got any suggestions for other caring parents? And what about letting us know how you decided to entertain your darling children in the long week ahead. Over to you, ladies and gentlemen…