Our children ____ to chill out in front of the TV or play computer games just like every child all ____ the world.But ____ also need to give their children ____to try out as many different things as they can ____. Both our boys play football for a club and their school, so they ____ a couple of times a week and play at ____. Charlie also plays basketball and the drums. William ____ the electric guitar and Laura ____ and has kickboxing and trampolining lessons. But we make it clear ____ them that if they want to ____ something, they need to work hard and keep doing it ____ again. There’s only Friday when someone is not out. It’s spent ____ pizzas and deciding on the logistics of how and when we are going to get the children to their different classes over the weekend. The best ____ you can give your children is ____. Proper time. Not a few ____ minutes ____ while you rush them off to ballet or violin lessons but time spent talking and listening to them.These days children are ____ to all sorts of lessons at an ever younger age. They are expected to achieve ____ younger and younger, and are made to ____ a failure if they don’t reach the targets set for them. I ____ my kids to play the piano but only for fun – that’s just as important. ____ is the only time in your life when you can play and not have the ____ that adults have. So why are we trying to ____? I think the rivalry between parents at school is particularly depressing – as if anyone ____ whose child learns to ride a bike first or learns to read before anyone else! If my kids had their way, they’d be on the computer the minute they got home from school but I try to ____ this because we do have rules about how long they’re ____ to spend playing games on their computer. When they’re not doing this, the boys play football ____ and Julia does ____ and goes to a youth club. She wants to go ice-skating but the nearest ____ is a bus ride and a walk ____, and I’m worried that she’s still a bit young to do this ____.I can’t ____ to send my kids to extra lessons. In any case, too many people ____ their kids into doing something because they themselves ____ it or wanted to. Living your life ____ your kids has its own dangers, in my view. Julia loves horses but riding lessons cost a fortune, so that’s out. Here in Britain, we ____ complain that children don’t play in the garden and go out on their bikes the way we did. Computer games and the internet ____ from playing outside but, ____ I worry about this, I doubt I’d have been riding bikes if we’d had the internet. Maybe as adults, we’re scared ____ the world they’re growing ____ in because we don’t really understand it. In any case, since I separated ____ my husband, it’s not easy to keep the children constantly ____ and I’m happy for them to go on the computer ____ it gives me ____. Both my kids love computer games. Natalie spends a lot of time on Facebook and, actually, it’s a good way for her to keep in touch with her friends in Spain and keep up her Spanish at the same time.

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