Holidays are a great time of fun and relaxation.  It is often a time of recovering from a stressful period of time and of getting in touch with yourself again. It’s a time of doing all those things that you have been planning to do for some time, but have never got around to it. Holidays are for catching up with your friends and for being social and re establishing yourself with you family. Holidays are a very important time and it is important that the time is not squandered. Holidays are necessary.

So, up until now you think that I have been talking about you – well, no I haven’t.  I have been talking about your kids!

Your children have been working hard all year at school. They need some fun and relaxation.  They need time to recover from a stressful period of time and they need to get in touch with themselves again. Yes, just like us, they have things that they have been planning for some time, but never get around to doing, and they also like to be social and re establish themselves with their family.

We all forget that kids have needs as well as adults, and that holidays are an important part of that.  This is why school authorities design the school day and academic year as they do.

My point is that when the holiday season rolls around, we adults forget that this is an important time for kids.