Summary
Today’s programme is dedicated to the challenges and joys of the long summer weeks out of school. Is boredom good? Will children fall behind on their learning? How can you be sure your teenagers are safe while you’re at work? Jane also hears about the impact of holiday food poverty on children with parents on low incomes. Plus minimalist camping tips to get children off their screens and outside. Jane is joined by: Juliet Benis, Primary Head Teacher Carmel McConnell MBE, Founder of Magic Breakfast Dr Laura Harrison, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of West England Briony Hartley author of Minimalist Family Camping: Dee Holmes young persons, family and children’s Counsellor for Relate
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Caroline Donne
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.0 | BBC Sounds Music music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.4 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey. |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome to the Women's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:37.4 | It's Monday, the 12th of August 2019. |
| 0:40.6 | And today's edition of Women's Hour |
| 0:42.4 | all about the long summer holiday. |
| 0:45.0 | They're just about to come to an end in Scotland, but there are at least two weeks, |
| 0:49.0 | maybe slightly more to fill in the rest of the country, |
| 0:52.0 | and it can be a real challenge. So we talked |
| 0:54.8 | about the history of the school holiday, the long summer holiday that is |
| 0:58.3 | specifically, whether boredom is any good, how you can best cope with teenagers some advice on what was described |
| 1:06.0 | as minimalist camping by our minimalist camping expert author Briany Hartley you also got |
| 1:12.0 | the view of Juliet Venice, who's a primary school |
| 1:14.2 | head teacher. Laura Harrison, Dr Laura Harrison, a senior lecturer in modern history at |
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