I never knew why Summer holidays were so long when kids are bored, parents can't afford day trips every day or week. Kids and boredom is never a good thing.

Summer jobs is more of an American concept but it works and min age is 14.

If its been regulated you can work at a farm from young age also over there.


www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-62491780

If children cannot amuse themselves they need more holidays, not less.

Honey wrote:
If children cannot amuse themselves they need more holidays, not less.

More boredom then you mean. Seems destructive boredom seems to be the key for these wildfires in the UK.

I don't think I was ever bored during the school holidays, I was either working in the family pub or did hop picking to earn money, hunting or I was building treehouses to use a hunting base. I never started wildfires or set buildings alight.

Green Man wrote:
Honey wrote:
If children cannot amuse themselves they need more holidays, not less.

More boredom then you mean. Seems destructive boredom seems to be the key for these wildfires in the UK.

I don't think I was ever bored during the school holidays, I was either working in the family pub or did hop picking to earn money, hunting or I was building treehouses to use a hunting base. I never started wildfires or set buildings alight.

I rest my case. There is plenty to do as long as you are not trained to think that activity and knowledge are things that can only be fed to you, instead of doing it yourself.

I do vaguely remember my mother going to the woods with my dinner, I was there there in my makeshift tree house It took about 3 weeks to build including a ladder half a school holiday there just on that including finding materials, sawing, hammering and drilling.

When I was out there hunting my own dinner and maybe extra for breakfast the next day. I was just an ear shot away of getting a pheasant or 2 when she called and out stood on a branch of course the pheasant's just flew away. She could of just climbed the ladder, slide the plate to me and not say a word, then climb back down ?...oh no that would of been to simple.

Why do mothers ruin everything ?