Listen: families stronger for lockdown experience

Many schools across the UK are nearing half term and for parents and children it is the perfect time to reflect on the first month back in the classroom.

Lockdown was a challenging experience, and no doubt many mums and dads felt a huge weight lift when their children went back to full-time education, but new research has discovered that having to home school for three months was not all bad, with many parents enjoying eating around the dinner table as a family and discussing everyone’s day.

In fact, mums and dads believe their relationships with their children is better for the experience and miss some elements of having their kids around them 24/7 according to McCain, as part of its Nation’s Conversations research series.

Aston spoke to Laverne Antrobus, author and child psychologist to explain the findings and give her insight into why eating as a family around the dinner table became so important during lockdown and why it must continue through these uncertain and shifting times.

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