Learner Dad: 'Our two watch the Toy Show the next morning with a fist-full of chocolate'

The upshot is they’re in to us by eight on Saturday morning, saying that life must have been very hard in the past if the Toy Show was all ye had as entertainment.

I’M not a great one for the Toy Show. This isn’t a commentary on the quality of the show, or Ryan Tubridy’s jumper, they both seem fine to me. It’s about something much more important than that – the amount of sleep-in time it buys me on a Saturday morning. 

Our two are aged six and eight, so we’re in dodgy territory if we keep them up until 11pm to watch TV. I know you can gee them up on sugar treats, but I also know the way they get after two hours of that, and I’m worried the neighbours will report us for noise nuisance. So we usually let them watch it on the RTÉ Player the next morning, with a fist-full of chocolate for their breakfast, while we doze and doze.