Divide and conquer: how I survived a break with the kids in Tuscany – The Times

Could Ed Grenby unite the warring factions of his family with a week in a chic villa, with culture on tap, followed by a week in a holiday park? Sort of...

I dont know about your kids (I do really Im just trying to be polite), but mine are barely bearable on holiday. Tears, tantrums, I HATE YOUs and the children are even worse. The problem is that while parents see travel as a mind-broadening, palate-expanding, culture-cultivating olympiad of learning opportunities, kids consider it a riot of sugary breakfast cereals and dubbed cartoons, a chance to splash around from morning until precisely 10 minutes past the point when youve absolutely had it with them, and to expand nothing but their repertoire of foreign-language obscenities.

I dont know whos right (I do really its the adults), but last year I thought Id try to unite the warring factions in my family with a holiday of

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