5 Ways To Recover the Joy of Summer Vacation

By Published on August 4, 2015

A new survey has found that, by August 1, 50 percent of British parents are sick of their kids being home from school: “When asked to pick words to describe the [summer] holidays 39 per cent picked ‘hard work’, 34 per cent said they were ‘rewarding’, 32 per cent said they were ‘tiring’ and 31 per cent said they were ‘exhausting,’” the Daily Mailreported. One notices all these 30-something percents don’t add up to 100, meaning parents could pick several options.

This could be parents just being honest: Kids are exhausting, exhilarating balls of fun work. The survey results reflect that reality. But the wish to get away from one’s offspring has some rather dark undertones, which we see reflected in other cultural expressions such as deliberate childlessness and the growth in non-parent childcare.

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Read the article “5 Ways To Recover the Joy of Summer Vacation” on thefederalist.com.

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