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Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell shares her summer viewing and what it can teach us Summer is over, children are back to school and Miss asks what we all did on our summer holidays. Well, this isn't one of those essays, but I am tempted to wax lyrical about one of my summer's treats - watching again, and again, 'The Incredibles'. If not exactly incredible, it was - like good childcare needs to be - good enough.

Summer is over, children are back to school and Miss asks what we all did on our summer holidays. Well, this isn't one of those essays, but I am tempted to wax lyrical about one of my summer's treats - watching again, and again, 'The Incredibles'. If not exactly incredible, it was - like good childcare needs to be - good enough.

Since children watch everything until they know it off by heart, there's nothing worse than a boring, implausible, glamorously vacuous kids' movie, to be endured ad infinitum, in the same manner as a Ladybird book or Barbie and Ken.

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