Are you a parent to little ones? Here's how to balance your festive fantasies of calm relaxation with the plethora of battery-operated plastic
Are you a parent to little ones? Here's Kate O'Dowd on how to balance your festive fantasies of calm relaxation with the plethora of battery-operated plastic .
It’s the acquisition of more miniature, plastic, battery-powered things to add to a collection so rapidly-growing that you end each day wishing a sinkhole would swallow the lower floor of the house. And what about you, the foster parent to this child of materialism? Of course, the easy thing, for you, would be submission. Buy the rubbish they’ve set their merchandise-grubbing little hearts on. Let your seven-year-old eat a selection box for Christmas dinner, in front of a massive telly, wearing an Angry Birds onesie, surrounded by every item on the Christmas toy hotlist. Sure, they’ll love you today , but you’ve just fed the beast and next year it could be addicted to crack.
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