Mum's the Word with Alison Curtis: Summertime, and the living is easy

It is officially the summer holidays! Yes, no school, but wait… the kids haven’t been in school since mid-March. So the big challenge for parents is how to make the next two months feel different from the previous three, where the kids were at home, and in most cases didn’t have regular schedules.
Mum's the Word with Alison Curtis: Summertime, and the living is easy

It is officially the summer holidays! Yes, no school, but wait… the kids haven’t been in school since mid-March. So the big challenge for parents is how to make the next two months feel different from the previous three, where the kids were at home, and in most cases didn’t have regular schedules.

I think it is really important to differentiate lockdown from the summer holidays. I know many parents did their best with homeschooling and trying to maintain some sort of regular daily routine, but now that summer has arrived, it's time to let all that go!

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