For any parent with children at school, February half-term always arrives with a mixture of alarm and outrage. How can they have time again so soon after Christmas? How are we even going to afford to feed them for a week at home? What are we going to do?
Of course the hoity-toity will already have half term trips to the riads of Marrakesh booked, but for the rest of us hoi polloi, it’s a case of scrapping the screen time rules so you can get some work in, mixing guilt and rage for you/your partner not having arranged anything, and a mid-week acceptance of defeat in which you join them on the sofa for a Star Wars marathon.
