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Leeds reflects on keeping children entertained during the school holidays
National World - LocalTV
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Are you worried about the cost of keeping kids entertained during the school holidays? What are your cheap or free suggestions to keep children’s boredom at bay?
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I think you you don't always have to take them out to entertain them you can
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do lots of stuff at home and take them there's lots of free stuff you can
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access you don't have to spend a lot of money I used to do computing teaching in
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the summer holidays and I found that a lot of parents would kind of struggle
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to keep their kids booked in because it gets so costly compared to having kids
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at school and you can just go to work and then pick them up after school
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obviously if you've got the kids home 24 7 babysitting or any sort of kids camps
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anything like that when you're trying to work especially if you're doing full
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time or any sort of job that requires you to fly or anything like that just
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becomes really difficult for the parents hiking walking swimming that doesn't
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cost a thing and even if you want to go far away take a bus to 250 it's not that
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bad walking there's plenty to do but again getting them off of social media
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that's the key in here because they're just absolutely I padding themselves to
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death aren't they
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