Getting your kids back in the reading habit

You know you were born in a different era when you look at wallpaper and think not so much of feature walls but of schoolbooks.

But the ubiquitous schoolbook covering that had mums and kids performing clumsy acts of origami in the closing weeks of the summer holidays wasn’t the only potent reminder that the new school term was looming.

According to a survey by Easons, the next sure sign that the fun times were coming to an end was when, after weeks of staying up late and having pillow fights until midnight, a normal bedtime was reinstated.