The old chestnut of shorter summer holidays has reared its head once again, with Michael Gove suggesting that the traditional holiday is a relic of the 19th century and must be consigned to history.
I find this disturbing. The “pressures” of modern society are responsible for the steep decline in emotional wellbeing in the UK and a UNICEF report confirmed that our children are some of the unhappiest in the world. One of the key elements of this is the imbalance between work and home life, both for parents and children.
We should be encouraging families to spend more time together, rather than upping the ante on the education front and expecting children to sit in a classroom for more days, and more hours within every day.
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