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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Isabelle Oderberg

The school holidays are too long. Parents are exhausted. Kids are over it. Lord have mercy

kids running into school
‘When my beautiful son ran off across the playground this morning to join his little grade two mates, he didn’t look back once.’ Photograph: courtneyk/Getty Images

“Oh dear gawd yes!” I screamed at my computer screen. “Yes! Absolutely yes!” I wasn’t watching saucy videos. No. I was in an online parenting forum. And the lines of text were swimming in front of my eyes.

“The December/January school holidays are too long,” wrote my new queen, Bec.

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