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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Séamas O’Reilly

The long school holidays are testing times for parents

‘My son comes home each day having made a rice crispy cake, muffin, or gingerbread man’: Séamas O’Reilly.
‘My son comes home each day having made a rice crispy cake, muffin, or gingerbread man’: Séamas O’Reilly. Photograph: Sergey Novikov/Alamy

It’s my first experience of school holidays as a parent and I’m realising, for the first time, how hard it is. I should have known that this was going to happen, time being linear and all that, but I don’t think I’d ever realised just how much time a summer break actually lasts.

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