Join the club

Take the children to an after-school club or start your own, as Jan Hurst suggests in the last of our series on organised activities Encouraging the child in your charge to join a club, after school or nursery hours, could in some respects be seen as taking time off from your job as carer. But in many ways it is no different from escorting the child to piano lessons or watching from the sidelines when they play at a sport.