I’m taking my kids overseas these school holidays and they’re going to complain the whole time

‘For my children their experience of this holiday will be a nice trip on a plane and a few weeks of effortlessly schussing the mountains of northern Japan. That they will also complain loudly about it is a given,’ writes Adam Liaw. Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images

School holidays are here so gird your loins because they are going to suck.

One of the most disappointing bait and switches of adulthood is that the summer holidays you used to look forward to as a child are now the stuff of dread. Instead of carefree days at the beach and endless ice-creams, it’s now your responsibility to schedule and facilitate those beach trips, and earn the money that buys those ice-creams.