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How expensive are days out?!

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MullerInk · 24/06/2023 21:34

My word! Just booked a day out at an adventure park tomorrow. They are running a promotion so I can get in for free, DS is a baby so he is free. We've only had to pay for DD and DP and it's £43! Pretty soon we will be priced out of days out!

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StormShadow · 26/06/2023 13:34

Sirzy · 25/06/2023 17:50

I think a lot of this comes back to the relatively recent idea that children need to constantly be entertained and can’t possibly be allowed to be bored. Instead of it being a treat it has for many become an expectation - and one in reality many can’t afford.

This has come about at the same time as children have become less likely to be fully entertained by contact with their friends and neighbours. I'm not sure it's so much that kids not being bored is a new idea, rather that the entertainment of children and downsides if they are bored has only recently become parents problem. It may well be that parents of 30, 40, 50 years ago would've been much more concerned about their kids being entertained if they'd been the ones who actually had to deal with the boredom. Playing out a lot as the standard really does make a difference. Mine still do, and it doesn't half make life easier.

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