Teenage kicks: How to keep your teens entertained on holidays 

Hovering between childhood and adulthood, staycations with older children can be challenging. Negotiation will help to ensure a happy outcome for all

Preparation and compromise are the secrets to a successful staycation with teens. Picture: Stock image

FAMILY holidays are often fraught with tension as their very makeup means that everyone has different needs, likes and dislikes. But while younger children can usually be entertained with swimming pools, a stretch of sand and unlimited ice-cream, their older siblings are not so easily amused.

In pre-pandemic times, their lack of enthusiasm for the simple pleasures in life could have been motivated by thoughts of international travel. However, enticing a teenager to a coastal Irish resort is a much harder task.